2 Stop 2 of 10 on Museum Campus: Landfill of Dreams

Field Museum — Exterior

Museum Campus, Chicago

A Preview

"Look at this building. White Georgia marble. Classical columns. It looks like it was built by the Roman Empire for the Roman Empire. It was built in 1921 because a dead retail tycoon left money for it. The tycoon was Marshall Field, founder of the department store. He died in 1906 with instructions to fund a museum of natural history."

Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.

The Reveal

This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.

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Museum Campus: Landfill of Dreams

Museum Campus: Landfill of Dreams

10 stops · 45 min

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$9.99 one-time

All Stops

  1. 1 Introduction — The Landfill with a PhD
  2. 2 Field Museum — Exterior
  3. 3 Field Museum — What's Inside
  4. 4 Shedd Aquarium — Exterior
  5. 5 Shedd Aquarium — What's Inside
  6. 6 Adler Planetarium — Exterior
  7. 7 Adler Planetarium — What's Inside
  8. 8 Soldier Field — The Spaceship
  9. 9 Northerly Island — The Land That Wasn't
  10. 10 The Reveal

Hear the full story at Field Museum — Exterior

This is just one of 10 stops on the Museum Campus: Landfill of Dreams tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.

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