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The Crown Family PlayLab is just the beginning of the adventures in store for young visitors in every corner of The Field Museum. Here are some highlights, to be enjoyed by children six and under as well as their older siblings and parents. Start your tour anywhere and make new discoveries every time you visit!
On the Main Level
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 Meet Sue and Her Neighbors
Is your child a dinosaur fan? Reigning supreme in the museum’s spacious main hall is 67-million-year-old Sue, the biggest, most complete T. rex ever discovered. (The exhibition continues upstairs, with Sue’s gigantic skull, videos, and more.) Behind Sue on the main level stand some of the largest animals that still walk the earth: two African elephants that have lived at The Field for nearly a century. Kids love to touch the elephant tooth and hide mounted at child-level. And just beyond them, don’t miss the towering Haida Indian totem poles depicting a killer whale, a sea centipede, a thunderbird, and many legendary beings.
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Come Inside the Pawnee Earth Lodge
Pretend to grind corn, pull a sled made of buffalo ribs, and see how Pawnee families lived on the Great Plains. There’s lots to see and do in this newly renovated, full-scale replica of a Pawnee family dwelling. Children can handle replicas of Pawnee clothing, dolls, tools, weapons, and trade store items while learning about Pawnee life. And don’t miss the bison nearby!
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Gaze into the Spirit Faces of Totem Poles
In the Alsdorf Hall of Northwest and Arctic Peoples, young visitors can see more totem poles as well as fantastic and colorful ceremonial masks.
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Visit an African Festival
Get on board for a virtual bus ride through the streets of Dakar, Senegal, where it’s time for the Tabaski festival. In videos and displays inside Africa, children can meet a family from Senegal, see how they live, and watch a Senegalese man playing the large stringed instrument called a kora. Little ones love the animals throughout the Africa exhibition, including a hippo, a rhino, and a giraffe—plus an interactive display of what happens to the food they eat. The large beasts are safely stuffed and mounted, of course, but there’s also a tank of live fresh-water fish!
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