The DANK Haus German American Cultural Center is a nonprofit cultural center and language school for the education, preservation, and interpretation of German American culture and language in Chicago, Illinois. Our mission is to preserve and promote German culture, heritage, and language through activities including, but not limited to, maintaining a center consisting of a museum, art gallery, library, and language school, and organizing educational and social programming focusing on and emphasizing the history, traditions, and contributions of Germans and German Americans.