May 26, 2023: “Chicago’s Legacy Hula” opens

A limited-time exhibition “Chicago's Legacy Hula” opened on May 26, 2023, at the Field Museum. Set inside the entrance to the Regenstein Hall of the Pacific, the exhibit includes the story of a Hawaiian musical group that made their way to the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. Queen Lili‘uokalani sent Hui Lei Mamo, a royal chorus and Hula troupe, from the island kingdom to perform at the Columbian Exposition. Soon after, pro-American forces in Hawaiʻi overthrew the Queen. The [...]

By |2023-10-02T13:38:40-05:00May 29th, 2023|Categories: EXHIBITS (current)|Tags: , |0 Comments
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Apr. 28, 2022: “From Fair to Field: The Field Museum’s Roots in the Columbian Exposition” (Northfield, IL)

Thursday, April 28, 2022, the Winnetka-Northfield Library District will host Mark Alvey, speaking on "From Fair to Field: The Field Museum's Roots in the Columbian Exposition." Mr. Alvey of the Field Museum will present a talk on the origin of the Field Columbian Museum, which opened in June 1894, with approximately 50,000 objexts from the 1893 World's Fair. The event runs from 7-8 PM in the Northfield Library (1785 Orchard Lane in Northfield, IL) and is free and open [...]

By |2024-01-07T08:47:12-06:00April 8th, 2022|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: , |0 Comments
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Final Jeopardy

We've been devoted Jeopardy fans in recent weeks, due to the incredible winning streak of Amy Schneider. The episode that aired on January 24, 2022, included an extra treat: a final Jeopardy about the 1893 World's Fair: The answer question, of course, is "What is the Field Museum?" (then called the Field Columbian Museum), named for benefactor Marshall Field. Although defending champion Amy Schneider bet big but did not come up with the correct question, contestant Joanne Mercer did [...]

By |2023-10-05T09:10:06-05:00January 24th, 2022|Categories: NEWS, VIDEO|Tags: , |1 Comment
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All the World is Beer

A HAPPY PROSPECT. Sing a song of wondrous things A city full of sights: Common folks and queens and kings Enjoying the delights. When the fair is opened, And all the world is here, We'll have a jolly time throughout the Exposition year. (from The Illustrated World’s Fair, May 1892) For a jolly time throughout the current year, consider a taste of “All the World is Here,” a new beer inspired by the 1893 World's Fair from Temperance Beer [...]

By |2019-08-18T10:21:42-05:00August 21st, 2019|Categories: NEWS, PRODUCTS|Tags: , , |1 Comment
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Finding the Fair at the Field

In terms of quantity and quality, one of the greatest collections of objects from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition resides in the Field Museum in Chicago. The permanent collection is a treasure trove of unique and fascinating items from the 1893 Exposition. We visited the museums several times recently to take in some of the temporary exhibits having World’s Fair materials on display and share a few photos here. Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation ran from July [...]

By |2019-02-12T08:07:01-06:00February 10th, 2019|Categories: EXHIBITS (current), EXHIBITS (past), NEWS|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments
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Pillars of the Fair: John Root and Henry Codman

Two pillars of the 1893 World’s Fair died unexpectedly before they could complete their work on the fairgrounds. Even the preliminary architectural contributions of both men, however, played a monumental role in the success of the Columbian Exposition. So, it was fitting that a small monument to the memory of these two leading designers graced the fairgrounds. John Wellborn Root (left) and Henry Sargent Codman (right). Glorious achievements January 13 marks the anniversary of the death of [...]

By |2022-12-10T10:11:00-06:00January 13th, 2019|Categories: HISTORY, LOST & FOUND|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |2 Comments
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Nov. 2, 2018-Jan. 5, 2020: “Brewing Up Chicago” at the Field Museum (Chicago)

The immigrant story behind Chicago’s rich beer history is the focus of a new exhibition that opens on November 2 at the Field Museum in Chicago. History and beer fans visiting Brewing Up Chicago: How Beer Transformed a City will travel through time to learn about Chicago’s founding in 1833 and the decades leading up to the World’s Columbian Exposition 60 years later. (Left) A medal given to the Pabst Brewing Company at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition. [...]

By |2023-04-09T08:58:56-05:00October 14th, 2018|Categories: EVENTS (past), EXHIBITS (past)|Tags: , , , |4 Comments
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Sept. 1-30, 2018 World’s Fair Diorama at The Whistler (Chicago)

Natural history exhibits from the 1893 World’s Fair are on display in the front window of The Whistler, a bar in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, throughout the month of September. In celebration of our 125th anniversary, the Field Museum has lent the specimens from their original 1893 World’s Fair collection for the pop-up diorama. The Field and Whistler will team up for a series of “Science of Alcohol” discussion series, including “The Biology of Beer” (Sunday, Sept. [...]

By |2023-04-09T08:58:48-05:00September 7th, 2018|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: |0 Comments
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Spirit of the 1893 World’s Fair in Journeyman Distillery’s new Field Gin

Raise your glass to the 1893 World’s Fair with a new spirit that delivers tastes and aromas from the Columbian Exposition's Agricultural and Horticultural buildings. Journeyman Distillery of Three Oaks, Michigan, has partnered the Field Museum in Chicago to celebrate the museum's 125th anniversary by creating Field Gin, a new small-batch spirit released in July 2018 and made using botanicals displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition. Field Gin from Journeyman Distillery. Among the Field Museum’s vast botany [...]

By |2022-03-05T10:29:22-06:00July 20th, 2018|Categories: PRODUCTS|Tags: , , |1 Comment
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Cephalopod Week Visits the 1893 World’s Fair

“Cephalopod Week” on NPR’s Science Friday celebrates the “amazing, adaptive, and sometimes creepy” family of sea creatures that includes the squid, octopus, cuttlefish and nautilus. Among the wonders of the 1893 Word's Fair lurked several tentacled delights. Armed with sucking disks on its tentacles Visitors to the 1893 World’s Fair could view cephalopods inside Henry Ives Cobb’s beautiful Fisheries Building. Trumball White and William Igleheart’s World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 (P. W. Ziegler, 1893) describes some of the attractions [...]

By |2018-06-19T09:44:56-05:00June 19th, 2018|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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