Chicago Field Museum Memories

11/14/2024

Malvina Hoffman's Hawaiian surfboard rider - 1936

11/14/2024

South end of Stanley Field hall - date unknown

11/14/2024

Postcards

11/14/2024

The Field Museum opened its current building in 1920. Here are photos of it under construction and visitors on opening day.

01/13/2022

Remember post cards?

01/13/2022

The Camarasaurus skull that used to grace the top of the Apatasaurus skeleton.

01/13/2022

The Apatasaurus at the Field Museum today has the correct head.

01/13/2022

https://news.wttw.com/2019/09/26/story-mold-a-rama-chicagos-very-own-souvenir-machine

For more than 50 years, vending machines scattered throughout Chicago-area zoos and museums have sold visitors souvenirs made of melted plastic. Meet the man keeping the vintage technology alive.

01/13/2022

See ... wrong skull on the Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus.

Here's a fuller version of the story: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/26/nyregion/yale-brontosaurus-gets-head-on-right-at-last.html

01/13/2022

Classic Mold-A-Rama Brontosaurus souvenier from the Field Musuem - To this day these things show the wrong head on the Brontosaurus (more properly called "Apatosaurus") which stems from back in the days of the originally mounted fossil display that included a skull from the wrong dinosaur.

01/13/2022

View of Hall 39 (second floor northwest wing) showing geology displays

01/13/2022

Mastodon fossil in Hall 38