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Founded in 1987, and home to the Radio Hall of Fame, the Museum of Broadcast Communications is one of only three broadcasting museums in the country. Until recently, the museum occupied 13,000 square feet in the Chicago Cultural Center on Michigan Avenue. The new 50,000-square-foot museum building will open at the end of 2005, and it is anticipated to be the first museum in the United States to achieve a LEED Gold rating. The building’s green features include a green roof; spray-applied, soy-based wall insulation; CO2 sensors for demand-controlled ventilation; daylighting with dimming sensors to reduce the quantity of artificial lighting required; waterless urinals; and materials of high post-consumer or post-industrial recycled content, rapidly renewable materials, and locally manufactured materials.