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Annual Report to Donors ANNUAL REPORT TO DONORS 2 0 1 5 DONOR HONOR ROLL 2 6 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT 1 8 SCIENCE 0 4 C O N T 2015 E ANNUAL REPORT N T O T DONORS S 0 1 Dear Friends, In 2015, The Field Museum launched a five-year strategic plan for transformation. Guided by its four main initiatives, your Museum is evolving for the 21st century. On the cover of this report you will find images from the stunningCyrus Tang Hall of China. In addition to being the largest exhibition in the United States to examine Chinese culture and history from an anthropological perspective, it incorporates new technologies and exhibition design to transform the visitor experience into a personal journey of scientific discovery. The Museum made great strides in 2015 to deepen the impact of its education programs. The N. W. Harris Learning Collection, now more than 100 years old, shared artifacts and specimens with 69,000 students in classrooms across the Midwest. New digital studio opportunities inspired teen scientists, and a workshop series offered training for educators to incorporate Museum collections and Next Generation Science Standards in classrooms. This year, the Field played a fundamental role in protecting areas of biological and cultural importance, including the 3.3 million-acre Sierra del Divisor National Park in Peru and the Pullman National Monument on the South Side of Chicago. Museum scientists described new species, recorded rare evolutionary occurrences, and shared the trove of knowledge held in our collections with citizens and scientists around the world. The Museum will continue to maximize the influence of collections-based science in research and conservation action for years to come. A healthy endowment strengthens every aspect of the institution. 2015 was a year of historic new commitments to the Museum’s endowment. Your support and guidance builds financial and organizational capacity to ensure long-term success. We invite you to explore your Museum’s year of remarkable achievements and growth in this report. With gratitude, Constance T. Keller Richard W. Lariviere, PhD Board Chair President and CEO COVER—This two-horned, five-clawed dragon is depicted on a Qing Dynasty (AD 1644-1911) silk robe in the new Cyrus Tang Hall of China (see page three). The dragon symbol was traditionally used only by the emperor to acknowledge his special status. 2 0 1 5 ANNUAL REPORT TO DONORS TO REPORT ANNUAL Looking at Chinese history through a new lens The Field Museum unveiled the Cyrus Tang Hall of China, the first new permanent exhibition in four years. The hall showcases 400 Chinese artifacts from the Museum’s extensive collections, including a 27-foot-long handscroll and objects from the Java Sea Shipwreck. In its first six months, the exhibition drew 320,000 guests who explored thousands of years of Chinese history. The hall debuted new digital technology, providing visitors with more choice and content than is possible with printed labels. The Cyrus Tang Hall of China is the Field’s first exhibition available in an interactive online format in English and Chinese. The Sue Ling Gin Garden in the final gallery of the hall was created in memory of Trustee Sue Ling Gin-McGowan and features guaishi, or spirit stones, from Suzhou. The Museum is grateful to Cyrus Tang, Board Chair of the Cyrus Chung Ying Tang Foundation, and Trustee Michael Tang for their generosity and support. Thanks also to the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund for their gift in memory of Sue Ling Gin-McGowan. RIGHT—This lacquered wooden statue from the Qing Dynasty depicts Wei Tuo, the guardian of written wisdom and laws in Chinese Buddhism. He is usually rendered as a general wearing full armor and holding a weapon. 0 3 BELOW—President Lariviere, Trustee Michael Tang, Board Chair Connie Keller, and Cyrus Tang at the Cyrus Tang Hall of China grand opening. The Cyrus Tang Hall of China is the largest permanent exhibition in the United States to examine Chinese culture and history from an anthropological perspective. LEFT—The bright yellow color of this silk robe from the Qing Dynasty was reserved for the imperial family. One of China’s longest dynasties, the Qing established their emperor as the Son of Heaven, emphasizing his role as a link between the supernatural and human worlds. BELOW—There is no one China. The first gallery of the exhibition focuses on the breadth of China’s geographic, environmental, and social diversity. Displays highlight the varied geographic settings and the diversity of Neolithic societies that flourished there. Darwinian discovery Although this Polylobus darwini may not seem impressive at first glance, Charles Darwin himself collected it in 1834 off the coast of Chile. Museum staff discovered this tiny beetle while digitizing the Field’s collection of 2,000 rove beetle type specimens, a project supported by the Grainger Digital Initiative. This unexpected encounter illustrates the depth of the Museum’s collections and the importance of digitization efforts. Creating digital records allows staff to better understand the 30 million objects in the Field’s holdings and to organize this information for future use. 0 5 Malvina Hoffman’s famous bronzes restored Throughout much of 2015, conservators worked to restore the Museum’s collection of historic bronzes by sculptor Malvina Hoffman. Unveiled in 1933, most S of the sculptures were removed from public view by C the 1970s. The conservation process included photo documentation, restoration, and research on the I identities of the subjects who posed for the pieces. A generous gift from Pamela K. Hull, granddaughter 2015 E ANNUAL of Stanley Field, and her husband Roger B. Hull REPORT supported this project. Eighty-three of the sculptures T O N DONORS have been restored to their original beauty and more C than 30 are on display in the new exhibition Looking E at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman. Thanks to The Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust and an anonymous donor for their support of the exhibition. 2 0 1 5 ANNUAL REPORT TO DONORS TO REPORT ANNUAL Sharing an ancient essay This album-mounted rubbing, entitled Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion, or Lanting Xu, is one of the most valuable items in the Museum’s Chinese collection. Wang Xizhi, considered by many to be China’s greatest calligrapher, composed the essay around AD 353 to commemorate a gathering of scholars who drank wine and made a game of composing poetry. The Field’s copy of the rubbing dates to around AD 1140-1278 and may be the oldest version in existence. Museum anthropologists recently collaborated with the National Library of China Press to create a series of facsimile reproductions of the book. The reproductions will make this historic text more widely available to an audience that understands and appreciates its value, rarity, and beauty. #233914 SCIENCE 0 7 Collections inspire art and cultural conversation The Field partnered with the Erehwon Center for the Arts in the Philippines to create the exhibition Art and Anthropology: Portrait of the Object as Filipino. Five Filipino-American artists and five Philippines-based artists produced individual works of art and collaborated on two murals, all inspired by ethnographic objects from museum collections. The Field opened its Philippine collection of 10,000-plus artifacts for this project. The exhibition, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, is a reinterpretation of ethnographic objects through the creation of contemporary artifacts. The mural Deconstructing “Filipino” (below) is displayed in the Chicago exhibition along with individual paintings by all ten artists. ARTISTS—Leonardo Aguinaldo, Elisa Racelis Boughner, Jen Buckler, Cesar Conde, Emmanuel Robles Garibay, Florentino G. Impas, Jr., Joel Javier, Trisha Oralie Martin, Jason Jacobe Moss, and Othoniel M. Neri Lace-bark specimens draw historian to Field Herbarium The John G. Searle Herbarium houses some of the world’s finest lace-bark specimens, so it’s no surprise historian Steeve Buckridge, PhD, (Grand Valley State University) visited the collection while conducting research for his book African Lace-Bark in the Caribbean: The Construction Chicago’s Filipino community collaborates of Race, Class and Gender. In the colonial era, slave and with the Field free women created lace for clothing and household The Philippines Digital Co-Curation project, funded decorations using the bark of the lagetto tree. Dr. by an anonymous foundation, made tremendous Buckridge reported the Field’s specimens provide visual progress with the help of enthusiastic volunteers. The evidence of how lace-bark was used and highlight an team photographed more than 4,000 objects from the aspect of enslaved Africans’ refined culture that has been Philippines Heritage Collection, scanned 6,000 historical overlooked in Caribbean historiography. Knowledge of how documents, and transcribed 3,500 of those texts. The to create lace from the lagetto bark has now been lost and content is available on a co-curated web portal that the tree is disappearing, making the Museum’s collection enables two-way sharing of scientific, historical, and an essential cultural and biological resource. cultural information about this important collection. 2 0 1 5 ANNUAL REPORT TO DONORS TO REPORT ANNUAL Kish display raises awareness of destruction in Iraq In 2015, insurgent militants affiliated with the so-called “Islamic State” began destroying irreplaceable antiquities at museums and archaeological sites in Iraq. President Lariviere stated, “As custodians of one of the great natural history collections, The Field Museum is heartbroken by the destruction at the Mosul Museum and other cultural heritage areas.” To raise awareness of the damage to the world’s ancient culture and history, the Field displayed objects excavated at the site of Kish, an ancient Mesopotamian city in what is now the center of Iraq.
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