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Originally, the Field Museum had plans to incorporate Sue into their preexisting dinosaur exhibit on the second floor, but had little left in their budget to do so after purchasing it. Instead, the T. rex was put on display in the building’s main hall directly in front of the museum’s north entrance, where it would remain for the next 18 years.
The museum on Friday will unveil the 40-1/2-foot-long (12.3-meter) Sue, one of the world's best-known dinosaur fossils, in the giant meat-eater's new permanent exhibition space after 10 months of ...
To acquire Sue in 1997, the Field Museum received monetary assistance from McDonald's Corp., Ronald McDonald House Charities, Walt Disney World, the California State University system and ...
Sue Hendrickson: Explorer of Land and Sea. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-7910-7713-9. "Dinosaur discoverer trusts intuition", The Oprah Winfrey Show. "Ask a Dinosaur Expert", an interview with Sue Hendrickson conducted by Scholastic Press; Dinosaur Named Sue (2003), Bt Bound. ISBN 0-613-36416-3. Sue hendrickson
The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. [4] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, [5] [6] and its extensive scientific specimen and artifact collections. [7]
Acquired by the Chicago museum for about $8 million, the bony fossils were painstakingly cleaned, prepared and reconstructed, with Sue going on exhibit in 2000 as "the crown jewel of the Field ...
English: Sue, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered, at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Taken from second floor of the museum. Taken from second floor of the museum. Deutsch: „Sue“ im Chicagoer Field Museum.
The Field Museum has added a new fossil to its collection, calling it the museum’s most important fossil acquisition since Sue the T. rex. An Archaeopteryx, it has feathers, hollow bones, a long ...