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Field Museum – The Field Museum is a “must see” for your visit with kids to Chicago. In the main hall is 67 million year old Sue, a humongous Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton (what big teeth you have) – the African elephants next to her look shrimpy by comparison. Upstairs, watch people at work on real fossils in the fossil prep lab. More wonders of the natural world include amazing dioramas American birds and mammals. | |
The cultural exhibits are also outstanding. "Inside Ancient Egypt," start upstairs in a reconstructed Egyptian tomb, lined with painted stone reliefs, follow the tunnels downstairs, to see mummies, a pharoah's woooden boat, re-created Egyptian village (and be sure to try out the Egyptian bed, not very comfortable). Explore the ancient Americas, cultures and peoples of Africa, and don't miss the incredible totem poles of the Arctic and Northwest. |
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Crown Family Play Lab – This section of the museum has younger children totally in mind (ages 2-6), where kids can dig up dinosaur bones and play with dino egg puppets, grind and cook corn meal, play musical instruments from all over the world, dress up in costumes of animals native to Illinois, and more hands on activities. |
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Tip: Use your Go Chicago Card, discounts for museum admissions and no waiting in lines. |
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Shedd Aquarium – Our favorite part of the Shedd Aquarium is the Oceanarium, a very cool marine mammal habitat, where you can watch white beluga whales spouting water, see dolphins playing underwater, touch chubby sea stars and sea urchins in a tide pool. There also more exhibits, featuring a Caribbean reef (sharks, rays, sea turtles) and Amazon creatures (anacondas, piranhas, and poisonous frogs). Tip: Use your Go Chicago Card. |
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 West of the aquarium on the lake is a boat landing for the Shoreline water taxi. From here, you can take the water taxi up to Navy Pier in the summer months. |
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Adler Planetarium – In the theater, there are shows that are out of this world (space, the stars and night skies), plus a Zulu Patrol show for younger kids. Star gazers will want to come at night (first Friday of the month) for telescope viewing of the night sky. And there’s a wealth of exhibits, about galaxies and our solar system. |
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| Outside the Planetarium, walk out by the water, and look back to the west. There are great views of the skyline, you can see how the Sears Tower is just so much taller than all the other skyscrapers. |
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| 12th Street Beach - To the south of the planetarium is a nice sandy beach, good for playing in the sand and wading in the warm weather. |
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