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vintagemuseums · 15 days

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Field Columbian Museum Moon Model, Chicago, Illinois, USA , 1898.

Original caption: Field Columbian Museum West Court Alcove 103. 1898. Moon Model Prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Germany, in 1898. Made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal. Wood floor, security Guard in uniform in background, stairs leading up to the left. Sign above door,"Geology," not completely visible.

#vintage #retro #museum #museums #1898 #1890s #Before 1910 #Moon #Astronomy #Geology #Field Columbian Museum #Chicago #USA #United States #Illinois #Natural History #Natural History Museum #Photography #Black and White

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thecreativemillennial · 1 year

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The infamous Tsavo Man Eaters on display in the Field Museum Of Natural History, in Chicago, Illinois. During March - December 1898, these ferocious male lions attacked and killed 135 people in Kenya, many of whom were construction workers, who were helping to build a railway from Kenya to Uganda. They were eventually hunted down and killed by an Irish British Army veteran called Lieutenant colonel John Henry Patterson, who later on went on to write a book about them called The Man Eaters Of Tsavo, which inspired movies such as Bwana Devil, Killers Of Kilimanjaro and The Ghost And The Darkness

#Tsavo man eaters #field museum of natural history #chicago #illinois #Kenya #man eating lions #male lions #john Henry Patterson #the man eaters of tsavo #bwana devil #killers of kilimanjaro #the ghost and the darkness

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dwellerinthelibrary · 4 months

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Book of the Dead scroll of the Chantress of Amun, Isty, Third Intermediate Period 3 - Field Museum of Natural History.jpg

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A beautifully painted He Who Watches What He Would Seize, the crocodile's name written with that groovy eye "with paint" (Gardiner's hieroglyph D5). From the Book of the Dead of Isty.

(I should note that his target is usually a pottery vessel, and not apparently the butt of the figure standing in front of him!)

Where: Field Museum of Natural History Chicago

When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty

#Ancient Egypt #papyrus #Book of the Dead #He Who Watches What He Would Seize #Gardiner D5 #Field Museum of Natural History Chicago #Third Intermediate Period #21st Dynasty #Isty

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kenmarlenn · 10 months

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wait how did the Dino Parents get from LA to Chicago and back within 30 minutes

#puppet history spoilers #puppet history #ph spoilers #watcher #watcher entertainment #Sue the Dino is in Chicago’s natural history museum #that’s pretty far Dinosir

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urbanchicagoan · 6 months

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A performance of Mexican dance from the state of Jalisco at the Field Museum in Chicago (10/14/2023)

#illinois #chicago #the field museum of natural history #field museum #museum #mexican dance #traditional dance #hispanic heritage month #jalisco

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romanticisingeverything · 1 year

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bookstore boy, find me and love me

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rjzimmerman · 2 years

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This article tells us that the environmental review of the project was conducted by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Based on my experience with the IDNR, any species that was to be protected was doomed once the IDNR got involved. That department is as corrupt as any in Illinois, if not more so because it’s generally hiding in the bushes. Of course the IDNR was going to take care of the corporation owning and operating the Chicago History Museum and the construction companies that were going to construct the renovations.

Congratulations Chicago and Illinois. You’ve proven you’re as corrupt as the news media says you are.

Excerpt from this story from the National Geographic:

In 2021, the museum broke ground on an effort to modernize its shaded lawns. The project included the construction of a walking trail with signs highlighting Chicago history, the installation of native plantings, and the reinforcement of the ceiling above its leaky underground archives. The work was designed, in part, to make the space a more attractive venue for high-dollar events like weddings and fundraisers.

The area, however, was also adjacent to a long-standing breeding ground for at least 45 pairs of black-crowned night herons, which are listed as endangered in the state of Illinois. Museum officials were not only aware of the herons, staff and visitors even enjoyed having an endangered bird’s rookery on the museum’s grounds.

“The birds had been around for a while,” John Russick, senior vice president of the museum, told National Geographic. “It was kind of cool that they were here.”

Yet museum officials appeared to minimize possible damage to the birds’ rookery that a major construction project would cause. Based on the museum’s limited assessment of the birds, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources conducted a brief environmental review and found the renovation posed little risk of disruption to the herons. Teams of workers arrived in March of 2021, just before the herons’ annual springtime nesting season. The crews operated loud equipment at times only a few yards from the rookery.

Soon after, the birds abandoned their nests. Weeks later, crows were seen scavenging on dead nestlings. In 2022, a handful of male herons returned to the site, but after failing to attract mates, they left.

#Chicago #night herons #Chicago History Museum #Illinois Department of Natural Resources

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mega-stellar · 2 years

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Tradition!

2017 Museum of Natural History in NYC

2019 Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand

2022 Field’s Natural History Museum in Chicago

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amtrak-official · 7 months

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Museums play an important role in the preservation of both history and art, there are hundreds across the US, but which of them is the best? We are only allowing one per city to keep the list from just being DC and NYC

#polls #museums

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badsciencejokes · 2 months

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Some tourists in the Chicago Museum of Natural History are marveling at the dinosaur bones. One of them asks the guard, “Can you tell me how old the dinosaur bones are?”

The guard replies, “They are 3 million, four years, and six months old.”

"That’s an awfully exact number,“ says the tourist. "How do you know their age so precisely?”

The guard answers, “Well, the dinosaur bones were three million years old when I started working here, and that was four and a half years ago.”

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vintagemuseums · 2 years

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African Elephant Group and security guard, Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1909.

Original caption: African Elephant Group (Loxodonta africana, Proboscidea Elephantidae) and security guard. Taxidermy by Carl Akeley. Background shows the columns that have been draped with large white sheets. White plaster miniature sculpture models of 2 figures and horses from Agriculture Building of World's Columbian Exposition.

#Vintage #Retro #Museum #Museums #Natural History Museum #Natural History #African Elephant #Elephant #Field Columbiam Museum #Chicago #USA #1909 #Before 1910 #Illinois

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notbecauseofvictories · 2 months

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Hi Sarah, I'm going to visit Chicago in a couple of weeks and when I think of Chicago I think of you. What would you recommend I visit/do?

Unfortunately, Chicago is not its best self for a couple months---while I maintain that the city is for all seasons, summer is undoubtedly when it's most alive. However, there are a couple things I will definitely recommend for the unseasonably warm spring traveler:

(1) Eat some food

A friendly word of warning: do not be tricked into eating Giordano's or Lou Malnotti's. Perhaps your companions might try to win you over with promises of Chicago-style hotdogs---do not be swayed! You must manfully resist! (Harold's Chicken is that good though, and if you're close to the one in Hyde Park, feel free to devour the three piece dinner of your choice. Cheap bottle of the too-sweet wine I preferred as an undergrad optional.)

A much better option is to find a place that serves whatever food you love, but does it really really well.

Do you like sophisticated twists on a brewpub menu? Try Moody Tongue in the South Loop

Or are you really more of a tapas person? Highly recommend mfk in Lincoln Park

Would you prefer something a little....meatier? My favorite steakhouse in Chicago is Tango Sur (though I would argue their empanadas are really the showstopper)

There's nowhere in the city that does Hong Kong-style barbecue like Sun Wah in Uptown---I just stopped by after the parade for the Lunar New Year, the duck is to die for.

Are you on the West Side? First of all, do not go to Big Star. I mean, it's fine, but....come on. I'd pick Forbidden Root instead, or head over to Pilsen for Rubi's if you can't survive without tacos.

There are so, so many different bars I would recommend. Chicago was the home of bootleggers for a reason, goddamn it. Still, if you can't get to Wang's (look, I like Violet Hour too, but sometimes you don't want to drink in near-darkness), Koval (the rare distillery in Chicago), or any of the many, many craft breweries we have in the city right now, you probably can stop by one of the many, many, many bars we have in Chicago, and get a drink anyway.

There are more---of course there are more!---but we don't have all day. So instead I will leave you with this bit of wisdom: don't eat at Navy Pier or anywhere too close to Lincoln Park Zoo. If you are at a bar, don't settle for a burger when sometimes, the chicken tenders are actually better. And if you absolutely must go somewhere for pizza, choose Pequod's.

(2) See a thing

Chicago has many things in it! So many things! A hundred thousand things! Unfortunately, I don't know what you're into, so I will just talk about them in general.

MUSEUMS: I am a devoted museum-goer, and Chicago has blessed me with an endless feast. There are the big ones, of course---the Field Museum of Natural History, the Adler Planetarium, the Shedd Aquarium, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Art Institute of Chicago. However, my favorites are smaller, more unique: the International Museum of Surgical Sciences, Intuit (though it's temporarily closed, more's the pity), the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures at UChicago, the Lincoln Park Conservatory. That's not even all the museums in Chicago! That's not even all the museums that I've been to. It's amazing.

EVENTS: I once joked that I was a person who needed to schedule her enrichment like a blue-haired senior, but the joke was on me---I am that person! Fortunately, Chicago supports me in this endeavor by publishing many, many different calendars of "what to do this week or weekend". Do you want to see something onstage? Well, here you go. How about some classical music? I have a trusty guide. What about non-classical music? Always go to the Chicago Reader for that. Are you thinking of catching a game? Well, we're still in spring training for the Cubs and Sox, but the Bulls are doing okay even if the Blackhawks aren't, and we've got soccer (male and female) now too!

(Unfortunately, the Chicago Sky aren't playing right now, they're my favorites.)

OTHER: Unless you are extremely efficient, coming here and eating good food, doing one other thing, is more than enough. I promise it is! However, if you have more time, I definitely recommend just---wandering around. The Loop in particular is great for this, because it's reasonably small and everyone there is busy doing things. Going places, talking on phones, getting into or out of ubers, protesting outside of the Daley center, etc. etc. It's amazing to watch, and the buildings are pretty neat too.

Or you could wait a couple months, and take the Chicago Architecture Boat Tour, which I think should be a requirement for all Chicagoans. Maybe even everyone alive in the world. Just saying.

(3) Walk along the lakeshore

Chicago offers many delights, but I really do believe that Lake Michigan and its vast expanse of water, sky and space, is a unique gift to the city. It is beautiful in winter, in spring, in storms, in sun. It is free. You can sit in the grass or the sand or amble along its broad paths for miles, looking at unexpected art installations and waving grasses and the way the beaches slope to the water; you can talk to a friend or watch bikers and joggers pass you by. In the summer, there are a dozen different stands offering warm elote or cold soda, and cheerful men on jingling bike carts that will sell you neon orange push pops. In the winter, there are still bikers and joggers but also Canada geese, and you can stare mournfully at the slate grey water and ponder existence.

It is the heart of Chicago. Nelson Algren called us an "October city, even in summer"; Carl Sandburg described us as a shirtless dude who gives great oral. Personally, I think of Montrose Beach in the setting sun of winter, the sand almost too cold to touch---and beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

#city of the big shoulders

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soberscientistlife · 3 months

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The American Museum of Natural History this weekend will close two major halls exhibiting Native American objects – galleries dedicated to the Eastern Woodlands and the Great Plains – its leaders said Friday, in a dramatic response to new federal regulations that require museums to obtain consent from tribes before displaying or performing research on cultural items.

Museums around the U.S. have been covering up displays as curators scramble to determine whether they can be shown under the new regulations. The Field Museum in Chicago covered some display cases, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University said it would remove all funerary belongings from exhibition, and the Cleveland Museum of Art has covered up some cases.

The changes are the result of a concerted effort by the Biden administration to speed up the repatriation of Native American remains, funerary objects and other sacred items.

Source: New York Times

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endlingmusings · 1 year

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