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By MacKenzie Coffman
\n<\/i><\/strong>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

Stepping into the Field Museum\u2019s new exhibit \u201cJurassic Oceans,\u201d visitors won\u2019t need to fear that dinosaurs will come to life.<\/p>\n

\u201cJurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deep\u201d is open through Sept. 5, and looks and feels like a traditional museum exhibit upon entering the space. On loan from the London Natural History Museum, the exhibit winds up and down the dimly lit corridors. Yet, it\u2019s filled with interactive pieces that allow guests to learn in ways they simply can\u2019t online or even in conventional exhibits.<\/p>\n

Meet the ichthyosaur, or \u201cfish lizard\u201d in ancient Greek. This dolphinlike marine reptile greets visitors entering the exhibit. Although they could grow to be almost the size of a blue whale, this cast of the former apex predator just shows guests the scale of its head.<\/p>\n

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The ichthyosaur was a predator from the Triassic and Jurassic periods, living about 145 million years ago. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhen we think about (our exhibitions), we think about them as experiences,\u201d said Emily Parr, an exhibitions project manager at the Field. \u201cSo it’s not just the place to come to get facts about the Jurassic ocean, but it’s a chance to learn in a whole new way beyond just reading on Wikipedia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until a few decades ago, visitors went to dramatic but much more static exhibits and typically had to rely on other resources to continue exploring. Now, the Field Museum and most other museums have taken on the need to be a resource even before guests arrive and after they have left the building. Yet, this poses a challenge to the museums \u2014 the Field relies on ticket sales, so if they give the public too much, then what\u2019s left to draw them in?<\/p>\n

The immersive, interactive exhibit is the answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cScience, in particular, lends itself to a very kind of tactile experience. So sometimes with concepts and biological science, you need to have hands-on experience,\u201d said Jason Foster, a biology teacher at Evanston Township High School. \u201cYou’re limited just by having a two-dimensional experience on a screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Field Museum has incorporated interactivity in unique ways for many exhibitions. Most notably, their exhibit \u201cWild Color\u201d incorporated smell into the experience; however, that function was taken away due to COVID-19 and masking requirements.<\/p>\n

Since \u201cJurassic Oceans\u201d is on loan, there is less flexibility in determining what kinds of interactive experiences are available. Still, the Natural History Museum of London, where the exhibit was created, included many casts of fossils and replicas of ancient dinosaur skins speckled through the show for guests to touch. Beyond just seeing the size of ancient creatures, hearing what the environment was like and touching the fossils offer a unique interactive experience that\u2019s impervious to becoming outdated in the way other types of digital interactive experiences do.<\/p>\n

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A large claw cast belonging to a Cretaceous period dinosaur, the Baryonyx walkeri, which lived around 130 million years ago. The dinosaur used its claws to spear fish. Visitors can touch this too. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This replica of shark skin demonstrates the similarities between Jurassic sharks and modern sharks, whose skins both feature tiny scales pointing in the same direction. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Visitors could also touch a small cast of a coprolite \u2014 that\u2019s scientific lingo for fossilized poop \u2014 from an unknown species. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jane Healy, a science teacher at St. Francis de Sales High School, has taken students on field trips to the Field Museum almost every year since 1993 \u2014 as have legions of other teachers in the Chicago area. She\u2019s a huge advocate for the museum and has converted many of her students into fans as well. Frequently, her students had never been to the museum before going on a field trip with her. But after learning about how to get free passes from their local libraries, they make sure to go back.<\/p>\n

She took her students on her latest field trip to the Field during the first week of March. As much as she loves taking them, it\u2019s difficult even when there isn\u2019t a pandemic because, as she put it, \u201cbuses cost a flaming gob of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her time corralling students through the museum\u2019s halls, Healy has changed how she wants them to experience the Field. She used to give her students packets to complete to verify they were learning. Now, she asks her students to be present in the museum so they can find moments of awe. For some of her students, this feeling took place a week before their class trip when a small group got to see the opening of \u201cJurassic Oceans.\u201d Walking around the blue winding halls, some were especially impressed with the size of the plesiosaur, the long-necked marine reptile that lived around 200 million years ago and grew to be between\u00a015 and 50 feet long<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The head of the long-necked plesiosaur sits in an open display case below hanging ammonites. The marine reptile swam by flapping its fins in a manner reminiscent of flight. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The ammonites hang from the ceiling, mimicking the way these sea creatures float above other sea creatures in the ocean. Although they went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, their hard shells are similar to that of today\u2019s nautilus. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This preserved colossal-squid tentacle is from a modern-day creature. Since soft-body creatures are rarely preserved, it\u2019s difficult to know how they evolved. The colossal squid was first discovered in 1925. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This feeling of awe is not unique to visitors. Even Parr mentioned she was blown away by the collection, particularly with the leedsichthys tail, which she eventually saw in person after planning the exhibition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had seen it on spreadsheets and things coming in, but the scale was surprising, even to me, having seen the measurements and the drawings,\u201d Parr said.<\/p>\n

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This cast of a dorudon atrox, which is one of the earliest ocean mammals resembling modern whales. The dorudon had small back legs that disappeared over millions of years because they weren\u2019t necessary. Simultaneously, their front legs developed into flippers. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is a closeup of the tail fin on a leedsichthys, a type of giant fish. This particular fossil indicates the fish was around 30 feet long. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The smaller modern-day porpoise brain sits to the left of a human brain and a sperm-whale brain in the exhibit. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To create that feeling, Field Museum workers curate stories around their collection so it isn\u2019t just a \u201croom full of stuff,\u201d as Parr said. Plus, visitors can actually watch researchers working. Since they\u2019re behind glass, this may resemble a zoo exhibit on first glance. But Healy said her students were blown away by seeing actual scientists who show them viable careers in these fields.<\/p>\n

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M\u00e1ximo the titanosaur stands in the main hall, where visitors can walk underneath his rib cage or look into his eye sockets from the second story. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sue the T. Rex\u2019s head is fragile, so it sits separately from the rest of her body, which carries a replica skull. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Visitors walk around the full-size replica of a pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, which lived up to 66 million years ago and is the largest flying animal in Earth\u2019s existence. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI don’t think we can ever replace like that magical moment of the \u2018aha\u2019 when you’re in the museum and you’re speaking to a scientist or seeing a specimen,\u201d said Stacy Dilling, the executive director of marketing and communications.<\/p>\n

Over the pandemic, Dilling said the museum shifted to focus on bringing much more material into the virtual world. Before, the Field Museum offered several toolkits for teachers. When school went remote, they made those resources available for parents too. Healy has long used these museum resources, and while Foster hasn\u2019t, he said the increase of virtual learning resources is a huge benefit specifically for students of color. He explained he\u2019s seen many of his students experience racism at the hands of classmates, hindering their class experience. Virtual resources allow them to learn without distractions.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Field Museum\u2019s digital components also can be vehicles for accessibility, Dilling said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be the entry point for people that might not want to come to the museum, but might be curious to learn more,\u201d Dilling said.<\/p>\n

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A replica of the ichthyosaur demonstrates the marine reptile likely had darker skin to help provide camouflage deep in the ocean. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This Pseudorhina acanthoderma, or angel shark, comes from the Jurassic period and evolved into the rays we know today. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Two Jurassic shark fin spines are placed in front of a fossilized Jurassic shark. The spines protected the shark from larger predators. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each year the Field welcomes approximately 1.2 million visitors; yet, its audience has grown to well beyond the confines of its stone walls. Still, Parr, Dilling, Healy and Foster were all adamant about the irreplaceable experience of visiting the museum in person.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s the beauty of science,\u201d Healy said. \u201cWe can be so hands-on and experiential.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Field Museum has a collection of 30 million specimens<\/a>, more than 500,000 of which are being digitized so students and scientists around the world have access to them. (MacKenzie Coffman\/Medill).MacKenzie Coffman is a video and broadcast graduate student at Medill. You can follow her on Twitter at @Mac_coffman<\/a> and see her portfolio at mackenziecoffman.myportfolio.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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