Man Enters the Cosmos

Man Enters the Cosmos is a cast bronze sculpture by Henry Moore located on the Lake Michigan lakefront outside the Adler Planetarium in the Museum Campus area of downtown Chicago, Illinois.

Man Enters the Cosmos
Sundial with Lake Michigan in the background
Interactive fullscreen map
ArtistHenry Moore
Year1980
CatalogueLH 528
TypeBronze
Dimensions396 cm (156 in)
LocationAdler Planetarium (outdoor), Chicago, Illinois

The sculpture is a functional bowstring equatorial sundial created in 1980 measuring approximately 13 feet (4.0 m). The sundial was formerly located slightly further south at the steps of the main entry plaza to the Planetarium, but it now sits directly on the lakefront. The work is a later copy of a composition first created in the 1960s for the offices of The Times newspaper at Printing House Square in London, and according to the Henry Moore Foundation is titled Sundial 1965–66.

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