Everything is Dead... I Think? at the Field Natural History Museum

Hey all!

Today, we are visiting the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Although we initially intended to start our day at the Shedd Aquarium, we could only get an entry time for 1:00 pm. We've toured several Smithsonian museums in Washington D.C. before, and this museum is just as impressive. We began our historical journey with a taxidermy exhibit in the museum's basement, featuring unique displays from a taxidermy buffalo to a narwhal. We found the first level somewhat sparse, but the exhibits on the main and second levels seemed almost endless. You can see virtually every taxidermied animal imaginable, and the museum also houses the original head of the Sue dinosaur skeleton. There is so much to discover in this museum, and you could easily spend an entire day exploring all the different halls. As always with our museum reports, we will let the pictures do the talking!

How We Rate It

Destination Experience: 5/5 Tikis

Parking: 3/5 Tikis

The Value: 4/5 Tikis

Accommodation For Special Needs: 4/5 Tikis

Welcome To the Field Museum

As we entered, we found a Buffalo!

And some Narwhals.....

There was also quite a bit of seals

The fact they are taxidermy is a little unsettling, yet intresting

An Exhibit with Egyptian Relics

Very Neat displays from a far away past

The Totems said to read Coast 'N' Tiki everyday.... Or at least thats what I thought they said

This is really a world class museum

Thats one big dino!

This guy has seen some stuff...

Ancient Pottery

We couldn't imagine carving this... could you?

Stacked Rocks are always peaceful for some reason

Various Naive American Attire

The Look is priceless

If only we had these at the Coast 'N' Tiki Offices

A Reminder to Leave No Trace

Birds and a really cool turtle

More unique birds!

Um.... moving on

Anyone know what you call a group of Flamingos?

I would like to imagine this how it looks at the Puffin Publishing house

A Large Variety of Ducks

They also have Swans

He watches over all of us with his "Eagle Eye"

The Thanksgiving Display...

Cousins of the Chicken and Rooster

You can find just about anything in here as ive said

The Closest you can get to a Grizzly without being a meal

A Variety of Wild Cats

Its a Wombat!

The animals keep getting larger

Like these guys!

A neat mural as we enter another hall

I will forever question how they fit a Giraffe in here

Various Gold Nuggets

Common household items made from these rocks

Uh oh, its gonna blow!

Again, we need a bigger budget here at our command center

Now you don't see this everyday

We have gone back in time!

Its crazy to think how far we have come from the dinosaurs

A Extinct Dino eating its meal

Its a Triceratops!

And we have made it to the original Sue Dinosaur!

Last but not least, we have the T-rex with its tiny hands!

Oh and this guy

With that, we have a wrap!

The Totems say thanks for reading (or something like that)

As always, Keep On Coast 'N'