Group planners will find a number of new attractions and blockbuster museum exhibits. Here is a sampling of what’s on tap for 2010: ILLINOIS The Field Museum in Chicago presents the exhibition Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age from March 5-Sept. 6, 2010. Visitors will learn about the colossal mammals (early cousins to the elephant) that roamed the earth millions of years ago and meet 40,000-year-old “Lyuba,” the best-preserved baby mammoth in the world. They will journey back to the Ice Age through video installations, roam among saber-toothed cats and giant bears, and see some of the oldest human artifacts in existence. Other upcoming exhibits include Climate Change (July 2-Nov. 28) and Gold (Oct. 22, 2010April 24, 2011). Gold tells of man’s fascinating with the world’s most desired metal, offering displays of enormous
30 December 2009
Midwest
This photo of Abraham Lincoln and son Tad will be on display at the Indiana State Museum.
gold nuggets, gold bullion, coins from shipwrecks, gold bars and jewelry. (312922-9410, fieldmusem.org)
on our radar
INDIANA Rare Abraham Lincoln memorabilia will be on display Feb. 12-July 25 at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis. With Charity for All is an exhibit of family photographs, furnishings, artwork and documents from a collection assembled by the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. (now the Lincoln Financial Group) in Fort Wayne, which closed its corporate museum last year. Items in the collection, which was donated to the state, include copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment (which abolished slavery) signed by Lincoln. The Library of Congress’s With Malice Toward None: Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition also opens at the museum Feb. 12 (Lincoln’s birthday) and runs to April 11.
LeisureGroupTravel.com