My Trip to Chicago day 2: The Field
Have you ever seen a full T rex skeleton? You can at The Field museum.
The Field is one of the largest museums in the world. According to The Field Museum web page, it stretches over 1.2 million square feet!
In this blog, I’ll show you my favorite exhibits, dinosaur bones, and…stuffed animals?
Day 2:
The Field Museum:
There were so MANY cool things!
So, where should I start? Sue, the T rex, The hall of birds, the underground adventure?!
Let's just start with mummies.
Here is how it goes,
You walk down a tunnel, the theme is that there are cave robbers,
And they steal the mummy, looking for gold.
You get to see all of the splendid things the mummy was buried with!
While I was there, I saw mini figures mummifying dead bodies,
I found it….interesting? Here’s some pictures:
Let’s move these creepy mummy dudes to the side.
Drum roll, please! The Underground Adventure! Now, I really enjoyed this one, but why? It made it feel like your’e shrinking!
But how? All you do is walk down a hall and it has mirrors angled at different directions so it looks like you are getting
smaller
and smaller and even smaller…..
Then you go inside, and you see roots, ants, and any other animals that lives in the dirt from there view! Here’s some photos!
Let’s get back to human form and move on.
Now, it’s the hall of birds turn.
Do you like stuffed animals?
Do you like birds?
Then you are in luck. This hall has every stuffed bird to ever exist! {My favorite was obviously the dodo bird!}
But how?
Many birds like the dodo bird are extinct, so how do they stuff them?
Well, they make it look as real as possible, so, it might have been a stone statue, but it definitely looked stuffed!
If you want to learn more on dodo birds, click here
Now, last but not least, Sue the T Rex!
This is one of the most famous fossils in the world! And for good reason. Sue has a 90% complete skeleton, the most for any T rex found. She stretches more than 40 feet in length and lived an estimated 28 years!
That was fun! We saw the mummies, ants from their view, the hall of stuffed birds, and the famous Sue!
If you want to learn more on The Field Museum, click here
