The Field Museum
The Field Museum was founded to house the biological and anthropological collections assembled for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The museum is home to many exhibits they obtained these objects by world-wide expeditions, exchange, purchase, and gifts to more than twenty million specimens. The exhibits would host studies of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, and Zoology. The Field Museum was incorporated in the State of Illinois on September 16, 1893 as the Columbian Museum of Chicago with its purpose the "accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of objects illustrating art, archaeology, science and history." In 1905, the Museum's name was changed to Field Museum of Natural History to honor the Museum's first major benefactor, Marshall Field, and to better reflect its focus on the natural sciences. In 1921 the Museum moved from its original location in Jackson Park to its present site on Chicago Park District property near downtown where it is part of a lakefront Museum Campus that includes the Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium. These three institutions are regarded as among the finest of their kind in the world and together attract more visits annually than any comparable site in Chicago.
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Animal Exhibits
In the Field Museum there are many animal exhibits ranging from platypuses to a T-Rex skeleton named Sue. There are many things to be learned from the Field Museum. Every animal in this museum has a caption explaining it and how it was obtained. These animals are either real or replicated.
An Egyptian Journey
In the Egypt exhibit there are examples of how the Egyptians lived. There are examples of how they lived and manufactured goods to live. They used mummification to preserve there people after death. They buried these people with their belongings so they could use them in the afterlife.
