Field Museum of Natural History
The Field Museum of Natural History (or Field Museum) is in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.. It is on Lake Shore Drive next to Lake Michigan. The museum has more than 21 million exhibits.[1]
History
The museum was founded in 1893 and had used old exhibitions that were shown from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, including exhibits about trains.[2]
The Field Museum has a large collection of dinosaur skeletons in the Evolving Planet exhibit. The human cultural anthropology exhibits have things from ancient Egypt, the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Islands, and Tibet. The taxidermy collection has many large animals, including two African elephants and the Lions of Tsavo featured in the 1996 movie The Ghost and the Darkness.
The Ancient Americas exhibit has Native American artifacts. The museum also has Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton in the world.[3]
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Daniel Giraud Elliot in 1897
Stanley Field, Field Museum President, 1906
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Stanley Field Hall in 2020
The Tsavo Maneaters on display in Mammals of Africa exhibit hall
Specimen of Cardipeltis richardsoni (PF3897) on display at the Field Museum of Natural History.
Drepanaspis sp. cast (PF14308) on display at the Field Museum of Natural History.
Tiktaalik in the Field Museum, Chicago.
Skeleton of Acheloma cumminsi (UC1756) on display at the Field Museum of Natural History.
Bradysaurus baini skeletal mount on display at the Field Museum of Natural History.
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References
- ↑ "Scienceblog". Archived from the original on 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
- ↑ "Port of Aden from the Sea". World Digital Library. December 1894. Retrieved 2013-07-07.
- ↑ "Sue statistics from the Field Museum". Archived from the original on 2007-05-15. Retrieved 2013-03-28.