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Collection Management
January 17th, 2011
The Boone Collection consists of over 3,500 East Asian artifacts gathered by Commander Gilbert E. Boone and his wife Katharine Phelps Boone. The Boones acquired most of these objects in the late 1950s, during a three-year tour of duty in Japan. Consequently, the objects are predominantly Japanese (accounting for over 50% of The Field Museum's Japanese collection), but a significant number are also from China and Korea.
January 17th, 2011
Species new to science discovered in collections.
January 17th, 2011
The Field’s online collections serve museums in Amazonia, Brazil
January 14th, 2011
Since its founding, The Field Museum has devoted considerable attention to the Native peoples of North America. The result is a series of collections of striking depth, strong in recent history and contemporary culture. Staff collaborate actively with Native American groups, who come regularly to visit and study the collections of their nations.
January 13th, 2011
For six short months in 1893, Jackson Park in Chicago was home to one of the largest and most spectacular expositions of the 19th Century. Near the close of the Fair, The Field Columbian Museum (now The Field Museum) was founded.
January 13th, 2011
The Field Museum of Natural History has an extensive collection of valuable archaeological materials from the southwestern United States from work conducted between 1930 and the early 1970s, when Paul Martin was involved in excavations at 69 sites.
January 13th, 2011
The ancient city of Kish was occupied from at least as early as 3200 B.C. through the 7th century A.D. From 1923 through 1933, joint archaeological expeditions of The Field Museum of Natural History and Oxford University explored many of the twenty-four-square-kilometer site's forty mounds, uncovering significant evidence of Kish's extremely early urbanization and its prominence as a dominant regional polity.
January 12th, 2011
The real objects and other kinds of information relating to life, customs, and traditions around the globe that are acquired and safeguarded by museums are much more than just "scientific evidence" suitable for academic research.Anthropology collections acquired at different times and in different places can also serve as genuine material witness to the reality of human diversity, past and present.Equally important, anthropology collections of "things" combined with carefully documented information on their manufacture, use, and human meanings can also serve as authentic historical benchmarks
January 12th, 2011
The Field Museum’s European collections offer visitors and scholars a view of daily life--and death--in the Classical world of the Mediterranean and in prehistoric Europe.
January 12th, 2011
Seemingly fragile, textiles can be an enduring link to vanished cultures, as well as a fascinating cross section of the aesthetic sensibilities of far-flung contemporary peoples. Among the five most distinctive collections in the United States, The Field Museum’s holdings of Asian textiles include nineteenth and twentieth century pieces from India, Bhutan, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines.