| Museum Details |
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| Name: | Field Museum of Natural History |
| Street Address: | 1400 S Lake Shore Dr |
| City: | Chicago |
| State: | Illinois |
| Country: | United States |
| Zipcode: | 60605-2496 |
| Telephone: | 312-922-9410 |
| Fax: | 312-922-0741 |
| Email: | |
| Website: | http://www.fieldmuseum.org |
| Staff Contacts: | Pres: John W. McCarter 312-665-7212 fax 312-665-7216 jmcarter@fmnh.org;
Dept Chair (Anth): Gary M. Feinman gfeinman@fieldmuseum.org;
Head of Coll: Stephen Nash, PhD snash@fieldmuseum.org |
| Quality of Online Info: | Very detailed; Links in small print, so Sitemap is the preferable starting point; Includes link to the Anthropology Collections website |
| Size: | large enough to have Maya Pottery Collection |
| Focus: | Permanent Exhibition: HALLS OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS --to be opened in the fall of 2006;
THOMPSON COLLECTION: Maya pottery from the Yucatan Peninsula and Belize; Huipils, belts, & baskets from Guatemala; Ceramic whistles, bowls, pendants, ear plugs, eccentric flints, and stone |
| Source: | Grube, Nikolai, ed. Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest. Cologne: Konemann, 2000. 455.
Schulze, Marco and Boris Eggers, eds. Museums of the World. 11th Rev. and Enl. ed. Volume 2.
Handbook of International Documentation and Information Series. Volume 16.
Muchen: K.G. Saur, 2004. 712. U of Utah Libraries.
http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org |