so, friday hank and i went to chicago's field museum. it was our christmas trip/present to each other, since we knew it wouldn't be cheap (well, it's not like it was super expensive, but we just don't have money for trips without me needing to have an occasion to justify them). the king tut exhibit was just about to leave, so we had to get up there before the new year. we were both so excited to see it, and i couldn't wait to see the sarcophagus. so before i'll get into how awesome the actual exhibit was, i'll lodge my one complaint: there was no sarcophagus! i mean, what the fuck, field museum?! you can't just splash pictures of the sarcophagus all over everything, and i mean everything, advertising the exhibit and then not produce the goods. seriously bunk. if they hadn't gotten my hopes up so impossibly high, i would've had no reason to be even the slightest bit disappointed. so, on to the highlights:
they had some really great items that belonged to tut. a pleasantly unexpected one was a child's chair that was believed to have been tut's when he was crowned at ten. the detail was fabulous--four gold side panels with the two inside and two outside ones identical (pretty impressive when you consider everything was surely done by hand), a wonderfully-shaped carved seat and best of all, claw feet. i just couldn't believe that people have been doing the claw foot furniture for 3500 years or more. the jewelry, especially the collar pieces, were amazing and made of so many really beautiful stones and metals. the tiny intricate details were just stunning, especially on the end of the dagger tut had buried with him and in the collar thought to have been worn at his coronation. also, though i was disappointed with no tut sarcophagus, there was the sarcophagus of tut's great-grandmother, and that was just breathtaking. overall, the exhibit was wonderful and i'm really glad i got to see it. i hope to continue to remember all the little particulars.
the museum also had a nice bunch of stuff about evolution, which i thought was great considering that they have sue the tyrannosaurus rex, and dinosaurs weren't just plopped here by magic. unless you're this one stupid asswipe who let her kid look at all the dinosaurs, but told him that they weren't going to look at the other stuff because "that's just not what we believe in." ridiculous. i will likely get totally fired up about this later on and post a gigantic tirade. for now, you will just have to trust me that she was a totally ignorant ass.
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