Papua New Guinea Collections Celebration
Schedule
Wed Dec 10 2025 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
1400 S. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive , Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60605 | Chicago, IL
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Join us as we showcase rarely-displayed items from our Papua New Guinea collection. 😮Come meet Field Museum Collections staff Chris Philipp and Julia Kennedy as they discuss rarely-displayed masks from the A.B. Lewis collection, new contemporary items, and various media from the Field's Papua New Guinea collection. At nearly 35,000 items, the Field Museum cares for the largest collection of material from the country of Papua New Guinea currently in the United States. 🌎
Presenters include Chris Philipp, Collections Manager, and Julia Kennedy, Collections Assistant.
This session is the second in a series that celebrates Wan Bel: a PNG Collective Global Exhibition, commemorating the country of Papua New Guinea's 50th Anniversary of Independence.
🎟 Included with Basic Admission
📍 Grainger Science Hub .
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