the field museum
for training, my new company was nice enough to put me up in chicago for the weekend to avoid the travel back and forth. my boyfriend, jason, came to town and we decided to check out the field museum, a chicago classic. it ended up working out perfectly since we met a friend in the south loop for lunch and went on a boat ride afterwards, which was docked outside navy pier.
jason and i were able to use our student IDs, which was great. we ended up getting the pass that allowed us access to the whole permanent exhibit and one of the special exhibits. we choose our special exhibit to be ghengis khan who i was excited to learn more about since all i knew, i learned from the movie mulan.
we really enjoyed the museum. we started out in the permanent exhibit about the egyptians. this was definitely the most crowded and loudest part of the museum completely with running and screaming children.
i also enjoyed learn about the tsavo lions and the man-eater of mfuwe. i had never heard about them, but jason was pretty excited to learn more about them. what a bizarre story. i loved that they kept emphasizing this was the exception and that typically hippos kill the most humans of any animal in africa.
we also spent a long time in the ancient americas exhibit. i loved that they highlighted the huaca del luna y sol, which i saw last summer in trujillo, peru. i loved the little model of the huaca. i love how the description really reflects when we learned last summer; not much is known and it will be fascinating to find out more about these ancient civilizations.
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we enjoyed the special ghengis khan exhibit. i did think that area of the museum was waaaay too cold, but jason thought it was just perfect. i wish it had gone a little more in depth regarding ghengis khan. i do not feel like i walked out knowing much more than i did before i went in about the man specifically. i did learn that he forced workers to write his story down, which is how most the history is known about him. he also tracked the birth of all of his sons by his approximately 2-3,000 wives. you also have to love how about 8% of men with asian lineage can trace part of their DNA back to ghengis khan.
the biggest reason for the A- in this museum was how certain exhibits seemed to require back tracking through the exhibit to get out (even when accounting for the flow of content). this seemed to happen to us a few times.
this is the longest i have spent in a museum in a long time (and we only had a 20 minute stop for a soda)!
time in museum: 4 hrs
times visited: 1 (in recent memory)
overall: A-
jason and i were able to use our student IDs, which was great. we ended up getting the pass that allowed us access to the whole permanent exhibit and one of the special exhibits. we choose our special exhibit to be ghengis khan who i was excited to learn more about since all i knew, i learned from the movie mulan.
we really enjoyed the museum. we started out in the permanent exhibit about the egyptians. this was definitely the most crowded and loudest part of the museum completely with running and screaming children.
i also enjoyed learn about the tsavo lions and the man-eater of mfuwe. i had never heard about them, but jason was pretty excited to learn more about them. what a bizarre story. i loved that they kept emphasizing this was the exception and that typically hippos kill the most humans of any animal in africa.
we also spent a long time in the ancient americas exhibit. i loved that they highlighted the huaca del luna y sol, which i saw last summer in trujillo, peru. i loved the little model of the huaca. i love how the description really reflects when we learned last summer; not much is known and it will be fascinating to find out more about these ancient civilizations.
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we enjoyed the special ghengis khan exhibit. i did think that area of the museum was waaaay too cold, but jason thought it was just perfect. i wish it had gone a little more in depth regarding ghengis khan. i do not feel like i walked out knowing much more than i did before i went in about the man specifically. i did learn that he forced workers to write his story down, which is how most the history is known about him. he also tracked the birth of all of his sons by his approximately 2-3,000 wives. you also have to love how about 8% of men with asian lineage can trace part of their DNA back to ghengis khan.
the biggest reason for the A- in this museum was how certain exhibits seemed to require back tracking through the exhibit to get out (even when accounting for the flow of content). this seemed to happen to us a few times.
this is the longest i have spent in a museum in a long time (and we only had a 20 minute stop for a soda)!
time in museum: 4 hrs
times visited: 1 (in recent memory)
overall: A-
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