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0 Field Museum

The Field Museum is one of the world’s great natural history
museums, with a collection of over 25 million objects (just
under one per cent are displayed). Following the success of
the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, a group of prominent
Chicagoans decided to create a museum with objects from
the fair. With funding from Marshall Field (see p79), they
opened, in 1894, the Columbian Museum of Chicago in
Jackson Park’s Palace of the Fine Arts, one of the fair’s . Crown Family Playlab
finest buildings. This lodging soon proved too small for A miniature interactive world of
the museum. In 1921, its current home – a white-marble art, music, science, and nature.
Neo-Classical structure designed by Daniel H. Burnham –
was built, and The Field Museum, with its celebrated
collection of anthropological, botanical, zoological, and
geological objects, opened to the public.

Egyptian Mummy Mask
This decorative linen-and-
plaster burial mask encased
a mummified child.

Key to Floor Plan
Animals, plants, and ecosystems
Rocks and fossils
Ancient Egypt
Americas
Pacific cultures
Special exhibits
Nonexhibition space Ground Level

Museum Guide
The museum has three levels: ground, main, and
upper. Most of the exhibition galleries are on the
main and upper levels. Each level has east and
west wings; those of the main and upper are
bisected by a large central hall. The upper level Lions of Tsavo
features exhibitions on nature (plants and earth The two lions that, in 1898,
sciences), dinosaurs, and Pacific cultures. Exhibits terrorized a Kenyan outpost,
on the main level focus on animals, birds, and consuming 35 workers before
American Indians. The highlight of the ground being shot, are on display in the
level is the Underground Adventure exhibition. Mammals of Africa gallery.

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