We got to visit SUE at the Chicago Field Museum thanks (once again) to our wonderful Detroit Science Center Pass. We DEFINITELY got our money's worth from that pass this year. This museum would have cost our family $120 in admission alone. We got in FREE!! Our first stop, of course was the giant t-rex, SUE. She is the most complete collection of dinosaur bones in the world. Her head is too heavy to place on the body (this one's fake... along with just a couple other bones) so it was in a second exhibit upstairs. Very cool.
We tried to take the kids around through the educational areas of the museum. Tadj and I found the exhibits on different cultures and history interesting, but the kids DID NOT. We took them to the kiddie area where we... made crafty things out of scraps...
dug for dinosaur bones...
had a puppet show...
played noisy instruments...
and had story time.
Overall, this was a neat museum. Best of all was the free admission. I would NOT have paid the $120 to get in. Also there was a McDonald's in the basement. They are literally EVERYWHERE in Chicago... at least 2 out of 3 museums we visited and the train station. Anyway, it was convenient this day.
We got to visit SUE at the Chicago Field Museum thanks (once again) to our wonderful Detroit Science Center Pass. We DEFINITELY got our money's worth from that pass this year. This museum would have cost our family $120 in admission alone. We got in FREE!! Our first stop, of course was the giant t-rex, SUE. She is the most complete collection of dinosaur bones in the world. Her head is too heavy to place on the body (this one's fake... along with just a couple other bones) so it was in a second exhibit upstairs. Very cool.
We tried to take the kids around through the educational areas of the museum. Tadj and I found the exhibits on different cultures and history interesting, but the kids DID NOT. We took them to the kiddie area where we... made crafty things out of scraps...
dug for dinosaur bones...
had a puppet show...
played noisy instruments...
and had story time.
Overall, this was a neat museum. Best of all was the free admission. I would NOT have paid the $120 to get in. Also there was a McDonald's in the basement. They are literally EVERYWHERE in Chicago... at least 2 out of 3 museums we visited and the train station. Anyway, it was convenient this day.
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