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Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL
Phone: 312 922 9410 - - 1 800 FIELD 54
Tty: 312 341 9299
The Field Museum is an educational institution concerned with the diversity and relationships in nature and among cultures. It provides collection-based research and learning for greater public understanding and appreciation of the world in which we live. Its collection, public learning programs, and research are inseparably linked to serve a diverse public of varied ages, background and knowledge.
You can travel the globe to discover some of the most interesting cultures, environments, and animals of our ever-changing planet in over 9 acres of exciting exhibitions drawn from over 20 million artifacts and specimens.
The Field Museum originated at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, which was held in Chicago's Jackson Park. Daniel Burnham, the supervising architect of the Exposition and the author of Chicago's lakefront plan, was hired to build a new home for the Museum. On May 3, 1921, the new Field Museum, after consuming twenty years of planning and $7 million in private funds, opened its doors to the public at its present location, at Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive.
It lived in the Western part of North America 152 million years ago during the late Jurassic period. Field Museum paleontologist Elmer S. Riggs discovered this Apatosa
And, if you are looking for the real thing, you're in the right place. At The Field Museum, you'll meet creatures from a prehistoric age, unwrap the secrets of ancient Egyptian mummies, come eye to eye with Bushman, the African gorilla who became a legend, and see Brachiosaurus, the world's largest mounted dinosaur. In "Life Over Time" you'll be surrounded by dinosaurs as you explore the evolution of life on Earth from the beginning of time through the evolution of humans - an exhibit 3.8 billion years in the making! Don't miss your chance to walk on the wild side when you meet the cunning, man-eating lions of Tsavo, Kenya, the real-life inspiration for the movie, "The Ghost and the Darkness". Real adventure awaits everyone who visits The Field Museum.
In this aquatic environment visitors can view a diorama depicting the shallow ocean floor.
Combining the fields of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Paleontology and Zoology, the Museum uses an interdisciplinary approach to increasing knowledge about the past, present and future of the physical earth, its plants, animals, people, and their cultures. In doing so, it seeks to uncover the extent and character of biological and cultural diversity, similarities and interdependencies so that we may better understand, respect, and celebrate nature and other people.
This child shared a coffin with a child of a similar age, presumably a twin.
Africa, a $4 million permanent exhibit, offers an encompassing view of Africa.
MAN-EATING LIONS of TSAVO ON DISPLAY AT THE FIELD MUSEUM
Paramount Pictures released "The Ghost and the Darkness," a major motion picture which recounts the terrifying and true tale of the lions of Tsavo (SAH-vo) -- two of the most vicious man-eaters of all time. While theatergoers can see the lion stand-ins, visitors to The Field Museum can see the real thing -- the lions of Tsavo, themselves.
Starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, the film's story begins in 1898, when the British started building a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in East Africa. Over the next nine months, two large, male lions killed and ate nearly 140 railway workers. Despite efforts to repel the attack, the lions continued to terrorize the work camps, halting construction of the bridge and causing hundreds of workers to flee Tsavo. Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson (1865-1947), chief engineer on the Tsavo railroad, eventually shot and killed what came to be known as "devils in lions' shape."
It remains a mystery to this day why the Tsavo lions became man-eaters, but two factors stand as probable causes. In the 1890s, an outbreak of rinderpest disease killed millions of zebras, gazelles and other African wildlife. Lions had to look elsewhere for food, and attacks on humans increased across Africa. Poor burial practices may also have contributed to the tragedy, as railway workers who died of injury or disease were often poorly buried or not buried at all. A lion coming across such an easy meal might develop a taste for live humans.
Upon completion of the railroad, Patterson became chief game warden in Kenya and later served with the British Army in World War I. He lectured widely on his adventures and published four books. After speaking at The Field Museum in 1924, Patterson sold the lion skins and skulls to Stanley Field for the then-sizable sum of $5,000. Museum taxidermist Julius Friesser did an extraordinary job creating the life-like mounts of the lions which continue to be a proud part of the Museum's collection.
The Tsavo lions are located on the first floor of the west wing in the Rice Wildlife Research Station. Viewing is free along with regular Field Museum admission; $5 for adults, $3 for children (3-17), seniors and students with an ID. Museum visitors will receive $1 off regular Museum admission when presenting a ticket stub from "The Ghost and the Darkness." The Field Museum is located on Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive. Low cost parking is available.
Hours:
Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day.
The Museum is located on beautiful Lake Michigan and Roosevelt Road, just south of Chicago's downtown Loop area and within walking distance to downtown hotels and shops. CTA buses #6, #10, #130 and #146 all stop at the Museum. Parking is available just south of the Museum at Soldier Field. Metered parking is available on McFetridge Drive, in front of the Museum's south entrance.
John W. McCarter, Jr., President
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