Chicago Field Museum
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We had a free afternoon at the Urban Birding Festival in Chicago last month and opted to visit the Field Museum.
It is huge – enough to be overwhelming! The main hall is the beginning of the exhibits….and is grand architecture too.
Many of my pictures were of fossils….and that was before lunch.
After lunch we walked through the 3-story replica of an Ancient Egyptian mastaba. It was very different from other Ancient Egypt museum exhibits I’ve seen…and I appreciated the physical presentation…like touring a ruin in Egypt….but with the comfort of air conditioning.
Once we left the museum, we walked toward the Adler Planetarium and took pictures of the Chicago skyline.
I experimented with my iPhone’s pano capability.
We didn’t go into the planetarium, but I appreciated the architecture before we headed back toward where our car was parked.
We were both feeling the early start to the day, the 2 hours of mostly standing at the Bill Jarvis Bird Sanctuary, and the walking in and around the Field Museum. We checked into our hotel and rested a bit before the evening reception for the festival.
