YellowCastleBuilder
Jun 2019
I took my mother and nieces to The Field Museum of Natural History on a free day for Illinois residents even though three of us had gone there in March of 2018 and seen nearly everything on exhibit at The Field Museum because there have been several changes there over the last year and the younger girl had never been there before. I had read about how SUE the T-Rex had been disassembled in Stanley Field Hall and reassembled in a new, more scientifically accurate stance in a new “suite” (exhibit hall) built in The Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet on the second floor, which opened in December of 2018, but it was a pleasure to see it in person and show it to the kids. The replica pterosaurs (flying reptiles) and hanging gardens that have been suspended from the ceiling of Stanley Field Hall were also new to us, as was the 122-foot-long cast of a Patogotitan mayorum (dubbed Maximo), which stands two stories tall and is most impressive. The little girls also enjoyed the Maori Meeting House. It was meaningful for us to show the girls Bushman the gorilla specimen, which our wee four-year-old had never seen before, because when my mother was a little girl, her parents were able to take her to see him back when he was a living creature at Lincoln Park Zoo, and the most popular animal in any American zoo.