I remember being taken to this museum for class trips when I was younger. I don't recally liking it that much. This is one of those museums where you see a lot of displays with stuffed animals in fake habitats. When you are a kid and have been taken to the Museum of Science and Industry where you can play with some of the exhibits, looking at a bunch of stuffed animals was not very fun.
This has changed as I have gotten older. I went to the museum with a friend and his two young children about a year ago and I loved it. It was great to see the Savo lions, for example. The legendary man-eating lions that the movie "The Ghost and the Darkness" was based on.
They have redesigned the Egypt exhibit as well. All of the mummies are really cool and kinda spooky.
Even the animal exhibits seems more interesting and exciting since I have gotten older. The displays are well done and well lit. We had a lot of fun the whole day.
Maybe the smaller kids will be a little bored. There is a lot of reading to be done to really learn anything here. However, if you have older kids and are looking for a fun time in a cool old building with great architecture in downtown Chicago...this is the place.
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