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Stop 4 of 12 on Museum Campus: Landfill of Dreams
The Field Museum — A Greek Temple on Landfill
Museum Campus, Chicago
A Preview
"Three hundred and fifty thousand cubic feet of white Georgia marble, quarried in the South and shipped a thousand miles north. That's the Field Museum, and large parts of it were copied off a specific temple in Athens. Find the ends of the building, where instead of plain columns there are rows of tall robed women holding the roof on their heads."
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.
Tour Stops
Follow the full Museum Campus: Landfill of Dreams route.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Buckingham Fountain
- 3 Grant Park — The Fight to Keep It Empty
- 4 The Field Museum — A Greek Temple on Landfill
- 5 Sue and the Lions of Tsavo
- 6 Shedd Aquarium — They Shipped the Ocean
- 7 Solidarity Drive
- 8 Adler Planetarium — The First Sky in the Hemisphere
- 9 Northerly Island — The Airport That Was Erased Overnight
- 10 The Balbo Monument
- 11 Soldier Field
- 12 The Reveal
Hear the full story at The Field Museum — A Greek Temple on Landfill
This is just one of 12 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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