This is Throwback Thursday #258. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! email:esconi.info@gmail.com.

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The Field Museum moved into its current home in March of 1920.  In a recent post on LinkedIn, they posted some photos of the move in…

Pivot… Turn… PIVOT!!!

Moving a couch is hard enough—try moving a herd of elephants. 🐘🐘

In March of 1920, we officially outgrew our home in Jackson Park (the current Griffin Museum of Science and Industry 👋) and needed to move to our new facility on Museum Campus. 🏛

It took a full 3 months and nearly 12,000 crates and cases to transport the entire collection a distance of less than 10 miles—Including Field taxidermist Carl Akeley’s famous fighting African Elephants.

Over a hundred years later and millions of visitors later, we still call the Lakefront home. 💙

Learn more about the Field’s 130+ years of history. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gucRXJCW