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Origins
The museum began with the collections of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
Edward Ayer convinced the merchant Marshall Field to fund a museum for the exhibits assembled for the exposition. It was incorporated by the State of Illinois on September 16, 1893, as the Columbian Museum of Chicago.
Two homes
It began in the Palace of Fine Arts and moved in 1921
The museum first occupied the Palace of Fine Arts in Jackson Park, the only building remaining from the exposition. Its name changed to Field Museum of Natural History in 1905. In 1921 it moved to its present site near downtown.
Sue
Sue was the largest T. rex specimen found when it was unveiled in 2000
Sue is 40.5 feet long, stands 13 feet tall at the hips, and is estimated to be 67 million years old. The fossil was named for Sue Hendrickson, who discovered it. In December 2018 the skeleton moved to a new suite in The Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet.
40.5 feetlength of Sue
Egypt
Twenty-three human mummies are on display in Inside Ancient Egypt
The exhibit has a three-story replica of the mastaba tomb of Unas-Ankh, with two authentic rooms of 5,000-year-old hieroglyphs. It also shows an ancient marketplace and a shrine to the cat goddess Bastet.
Twenty-threehuman mummies on display
A meeting house
A Māori meeting house from Tokomaru Bay stands in the cultural halls
The museum houses Ruatepupuke II, an authentic 19th-century Māori meeting house from Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand. The Africa hall opened in November 1993, and the Cyrus Tang Hall of China opened in 2015.
Day 2, morning
Next is Shedd Aquarium.
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