On Labor Day my family and I visited the Field Museum to see the King Tut exhibit. We started out going to see Da Vinci's inventions at the Museum of Science and Industry but it was sold out.
I had seen the King Tut exhibit in the early 90's and it was pretty impressive. It was a real tour with tomb-like walls. In fact, I got a little claustrophobic on the spiral staircase built to get to the upper level.
I was disappointed with this exhibit. It was mainly smaller artifacts in glass cases. In fact, some of the display prior to entering the actual exhibit (the free stuff), was just as interesting, if not more. Without paying for the tour (I believe general admission is $12.00 and with the tour it was $26.00), you could still see mummies and a
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