in honor of E. Leiand Webber, director and president of the 

 Museum for many years. Reference materials expand on 

 the "Indians of the Americas" exhibits in the surrounding 

 halls. Visitors have made especially heavy use of a collec- 

 tion of videotapes, albums of prints from the Museum's 

 extensive archive of ethnographic photos, experience 

 boxes from the Harris Educational Loan Center, and tribal 

 newspapers through which Native Americans speak from 

 their own perspective of current issues. 



Special Exhibits 



In 1987 and 1988 the Museum opened two additional 

 spaces for special exhibits, the Webber Gallery located in 

 the Webber Resource Center and a small gallery on the 

 ground floor next to the larger Special Exhibition Hall that 

 has housed Gods. Spirits, and People since 1986. The 

 new spaces permitted a significant increase in temporary 

 exhibits; during the past two years the Museum fiosted 

 seventeen traveling exhibits and also mounted three 

 shows generated in-house. 



Recent acquisitions to the Field Museum's anthropol- 

 ogy collection provided artifacts for two of the special in- 

 house exhibits. Traditions in Japanese Art: Ttie Boone Col- 

 lection included a broad spectrum of items spanning the 

 Edo through Meiji periods. Paintings, maps, books, cera- 

 mics, personal accessories, household furnishings, and 

 textiles donated by Katharine and the late Commander 

 Gilbert E. Boone comprised the exhibit which was on dis- 

 play June to October 1988. In addition, Japanese inro, net- 

 suke, and ojime donated by Jeanette and Carl Kroch have 

 been exhibited in a special display adjacent to the ground 

 floor Special Exhibition Hall since November 1987. 



The Museum's most spectacular special exhibition of 

 the past two years was certainly Tiffany: 150 Years of 

 Gems and Jewelry, mounted in the Hall of Gems and 

 Grainger Gallery for three months starting November 7, 

 1987. The exhibit traced the evolution of jewelry design in 

 America through the history of the famous jeweler. 



The exhibit Celebrating Our Diversity, a collection of 

 artifacts from the Department of Anthropology, was dis- 

 played at Oak Woods Cemetery Association in 1988 as a 

 memorial to the late Mayor Harold Washington. 



EDUCATION PROGRAMMING 

 and COMMUNITY OUTREACH 



Field Museum's educational programs are designed to 

 augment, refresh, and bring new ideas into the life of our 

 diverse audiences. Under the impetus of Centennial Di- 

 rections, the Education Department has been experiment- 

 ing with a variety of programs to bring objects, ideas, and 

 learners together in stimulating and useful exchanges. 



For the casual visitor as well as the more focused 

 user, we offered a rich variety of courses, workshops, per- 

 formances, and participatory activities. More than 10,352 

 people enrolled in multi-session evening or weekend adult 

 courses, participated in Chicago-area environmental field 

 trips, or took part in Summer and Winter Fun children's 

 workshops. Public presentations included performances, 

 lectures, and adult feature courses that highlighted Field 

 Museum's research in the tropics, Indians of the Great 

 Lakes, and Egypt. 



For the casual visitor, the relocated Place for Wonder 

 made it possible for parents and younger children to share 

 the delights of touching and exploring natural history 

 materials. Others experienced the replica 1850 Pawnee 

 Earth Lodge, listened to local professional musicians in 

 the World Music Program, or participated with Hall Inter- 

 preters in more than 45 hands-on activities. 



School and community groups account for one-fifth of 

 the Museum's total annual attendance. Centennial Direc- 

 tions outlines our responsibility to extend the benefits of 

 these excursions by increasing training programs for 

 teachers and community group leaders, working with 

 these teachers to improve understanding of the signifi- 

 cance of object-based learning on the total educational 

 experience, and developing more resource materials for 

 use away from the Museum. 



Thus, training for teachers and community leaders 

 has become a major component of the Museum's work. In 

 1987-88, some 2,150 teachers and student-teachers par- 

 ticipated in 96 training sessions, some for two-week per- 

 iods and others for one-day workshops. These sessions 

 are followed by participant evaluation and program mod- 

 elling for future field trips. The entire 8,000-copy first print- 

 ing of the Museum's new publication Teach ttie Mind, 



Tenth anniversary of the Pawnee Earth 

 Lodge In 1988 included visits by 

 Oklahoma Pawnee Indians, who shared 

 their rich cultural heritage with visitors. 



