Death: Life's Greatest Mystery

Consider your own big questions about death as you explore natural and cultural responses to life’s inevitable conclusion.

Challenge what you think you know about death. In Death: Life's Greatest Mystery, explore cultural and biological perspectives that hold possible answers to some of life's biggest questions.

Through artifacts, specimens, and immersive media experiences, learn how life and death are part of a universal, continuous, and cyclical process. Experience connections between life, death, growth, and decay in an immersive, ever-changing multimedia experience at the heart of the exhibition. See how life goes on after death—and could not without it.Death: Life's Greatest Mystery.

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Specifications

  • Gallery Requirements: 7,500 ft2 (700m2)
  • Shipping: One-way, inbound, paid by host venue
  • Language: All text in English and Spanish; language may be converted by host venues

Bring Death: Life's Greatest Mystery to Your Institution

Contact us to learn more about hosting the exhibition at travelingexh@fieldmuseum.org.