FIELD MUSEUM. A Look Inside

The first impression on entering Stanley Field Hall is a sense of great public space: simple forms and surfaces define the heart of the Museum. It is an enormous skylit room, lined with arches and terminated on the South by an apse. Exhibition spaces are accessible to the East and West. A simple solution to the difficult conceptual problem of organizing a Great Museum.

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Above: Stanley Field Hall. Space enough for the largest dinosaur.

Below: The Skylight. A simple grid pattern with ornament and theme.

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Above: The Apse, flanked with Henry Hering's Allegorical Figures

Below: Arches line the Hall and define entry points to the Exhibitions.

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All nice and simple. Right?

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