I had a field day at the Field Museum, it’s basically Chicago‘s museum of natural and human history. The entrance is graced by a titanosaurus skeleton composed of six dinosaurs looking over a pair of fighting elephants. The place is six museums in one. There are three special exhibitions, an entire wing on Native Americans, a floor with dinosaurs and taxidermied animals, and also on Senegal.
The museum presents exhibits in a multidisciplinary way, sometimes combining artifacts with social studies interpretations on the economy, history, and nature. I got a little creeped out by the informational mini-documentaries that all shared the same man’s voice, it felt like he was following me around.
It’s probably best to schedule at least four hours in here straddling lunch to get a good walk, a break, and more walking inside the museum.
