Illinois State Museum Prehistoric goodys

[Takama]

Last weekend My Mom and her boyfriend took me to the Illinois State Museum in Springfield Illinois. Now the place was nice, but there was one thing I was interested in, the Prehistoric cretures in what they call the "Changes" Exihbit.   Now the Exhibit had many creatures but I was unable to catch everything, and most of the animals were behind glass.

The first prehistoric creature I encountered was this Life-sized mode of Maganura, There was another one in the Exihbit but that will come later


This is a Lifelike recreation of Prhistoric sealife in a tube. the little tan tenticles would move relisticaly as water flowed up it.


Prehistoric Sealife Fossils


I found this Mastodon case to be very cool, and I love the model they made for it.


The Model


The boob Teeth


A painting featuring the creature


This Giant insect was crawling on a sign hanging from the ceiling. I believe its a Prehistoric species


From here on, the exhibit is divided into different sections with prehistoric sealife first.

Immediately you can see creatures hanging from the ceiling, most were life sized and they did give a eerie presence in the room

Lions main Jellyfish and sea scorpion(don't know what species it is)


Orthocones
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Devonian Diorama


Stenthacanthus









Big old Dunkolosteus


Chasing a Shark


Trilobite


Ordovician Display


Silurian Display


Devonian Display


and now we enter the cabonifuras


Megalocephalus


Snake like Amphibian


Arthroplura


Meganura


difference between a modern tree and a fern relative


Various Fossils from the period


The Dinosaur room


Since there were no dinosaurs, we are now in the Pleistocene, with a Shortface bear and a Oxen.


The Ox looks afraid


And the bear looks like he is stocking the Ox. however


he was just burying some bones


Here is the main attraction of the whole museum. A Sloth, a Mastodon and a Beaver.

Obviously this is a megatherium


The Mastodon


The Beaver


Different kinds of Mammal Fossils



That was it for the prehistoric stuff in the museum, but in the giftshop they had various dinosaur merchandise for sale. Unfortunately, the one think I wanted the most was not, and it was this case of Kaiyodo dino Tales figures.


I did get something though, and it was the biggest thing in the shop,


Tyrant King Rex from Geoworld

I hope you enjoy my photos, and I did enjoy my trip there

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Reminds me a lot of Malcolm's work.

[Gwangi]

Great stuff, really love those dioramas. I wish more museums would setup dioramas like those. I also wish there was a good mastodon model like the one you shared. Shame about the dinosaurs being closed off though. Hope they're working on opening it up.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Great stuff, really love those dioramas. I wish more museums would setup dioramas like those. I also wish there was a good mastodon model like the one you shared. Shame about the dinosaurs being closed off though. Hope they're working on opening it up.

I am quite impressed with your picture tour of the offerings and thanks so much for sharing them with us. I too love all the dioramas and how realistic they are.
That is a very good point Gwangi, I have been wanting to find a nice model of a North American Mastodon to display with my dad's tusk he found, without much luck. Does anyone have any ideas or know of any that are very realistic and accurate? Not that good with mammals myself so any input would be great.

[Takama]

Great stuff, really love those dioramas. I wish more museums would setup dioramas like those. I also wish there was a good mastodon model like the one you shared. Shame about the dinosaurs being closed off though. Hope they're working on opening it up.

Oh I don't think there was an actual room behind that door.   The museum was dedicated to showing off life from Prehistoric Illinois, and there is no dinosaurs to be found there.

[Takama]

Great stuff, really love those dioramas. I wish more museums would setup dioramas like those. I also wish there was a good mastodon model like the one you shared. Shame about the dinosaurs being closed off though. Hope they're working on opening it up.

I am quite impressed with your picture tour of the offerings and thanks so much for sharing them with us. I too love all the dioramas and how realistic they are.
That is a very good point Gwangi, I have been wanting to find a nice model of a North American Mastodon to display with my dad's tusk he found, without much luck. Does anyone have any ideas or know of any that are very realistic and accurate? Not that good with mammals myself so any input would be great.

Malcolm Has a Faunacasts model that he can make.