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« Thread Started on Oct 28, 2009, 7:16pm » | |
Hi everyone, my name is Scott from Chicago, IL.
I have always loved dinosaurs and grew up going to the great collection at the Field Museum.
I had a huge collection growing up (mostly Carnegie and Jurassic Park) and used to make exhibits and have people tour my "museum."
Well, over the years that collection started to vanish and my love for dinosaurs became extinct...
But then I had the privilege to take a course in college with Dr. William Hammer, paleontologist who excavated Cryolophosaurus in Antarctica, and my love for dinosaurs re-evolved.
Right now I'm started my collection up again with the Carnegie Collection (my personal favorite growing up). I got some of the Papo ones...amazing detail and overall impressive even though they are far for accurate (but I'm a sucker for Jurassic Park so I had to get them).
I also love to photograph dinosaur mounts in museum so you should check out my Flickr photostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/astrangerinthealps/) to see where I have been and give me suggestions on places I should visit. My goal is to get to the Royal Tyrrell Museum, American Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian, and The Denver Museum soon.
Well, that is all I have for now...
Peace
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« Reply #1 on Oct 28, 2009, 7:41pm » | |
Hello and welcome. I am very envious of you living so close to the Field Museum - what a fantastic collection! I'll be sure to check out your Flickr stream.
Like you I loved dinosaurs as a kid and, yes, set up little 'museums' (it's good to know that someone else did that...). I then got rid of my collection, but I'm now busily building up a new one. It's a bit addictive.
Hope you enjoy yourself here.
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« Reply #2 on Oct 28, 2009, 10:37pm » | |
Hi Scott. Welcome to the forum!
Chicago? Field Museum? About 15 years ago I had the opportunity to visit it during a Chicago trip with a pupils´ exchange. Unfourtunately the dinosaur exhibit was closed that day, so I only could admire the great sauropod in the entry hall, rearing up over two (?) floors.
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« Reply #3 on Oct 29, 2009, 12:15am » | |
About 15 years ago they completely re-did the dinosaur hall and changed it to really mediocre "Life Over Time" exhibit where information was given to you by cheesy news cast starring Bill Kurtis (the narrator from Anchorman). Since then they have changed it to an amazing exhibit called "Evolving Planet" which goes through the stages of how life formed on this planet from single cells to the humans. They have a great collection of Synapsid proto-mammals, pre-historic mammals, and of course the dinosaurs (notably a Daspletosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Deinonychus among others).
The sauropod you recall is no longer there. It was a cast of the original Brachiosaurus skeleton found by Elmer Riggs in 1900. They moved that cast to the United Terminal at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and they also have a bronze cast outside the musuem. They replaced it with the world famous Tyrannosaurus Rex "Sue."
Sue is great and all, but personally I think the Brachiosaurus was more impressive display.
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« Reply #4 on Oct 29, 2009, 2:13am » | |
Yeah, I was dissappointed when they moved that brach cast skeleton out of the main hall when the Field got Sue- it didn't make sense as there is still plenty of room even with Sue in the hall-but I don't understand anything the Field has done to their exhibits over the past 20 years so it was no surprise-
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« Reply #5 on Oct 29, 2009, 9:53am » | |
I've flown through Chicago a few times and I always try to visit the Brachiosaurus cast. I agree it is impressive.
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« Reply #7 on Oct 29, 2009, 5:47pm » | |
Oct 29, 2009, 4:35pm, Dan wrote:Welcome to the forum!
I grew up near the Smithsonian (sort of), but I expect Chicago's exhibits would blow it out of the water. |
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I would think that the Smithsonian's collection is far better than the Field Museum collection- I have never been to the Smithsonian myself, but I know what the Field has on display having grown up going there many many times-
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« Reply #8 on Nov 1, 2009, 3:18am » | |
I used to set up museums too! Ah, good times....
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« Reply #9 on Nov 2, 2009, 11:59pm » | |
Welcome to the forum, Scott! Lucky you, we don't have a decent museum here in Seattle that has any good dinosaur exhibit 
Yah, the Denver museum is one place I would like to visit someday. You should, if you have not yet, take a trip and visit the Dinosaur National Monument, it truly is an amazing place!
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