World-class natural history museums continuously strive to create extraordinary experiences for visitors, and that means finding creative ways to transport people of all ages into a specific tableau or era. So when Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History began the process of moving its famous Tyrannosaurus rex specimen to a new home within the museum, curators saw an opportunity to immerse visitors in the dinosaur’s world. SUE the T. rex Specimen FMNH PR 2081 – nicknamed “SUE,” after Sue Hendrickson, the explorer and fossil collector who discovered it in 1990 – is the largest, most complete and best-preserved T. rex specimen ever found, with 90 percent of the fossil recovered. The Field Museum has been SUE’s permanent home since 1997, with the fossil positioned on a dais and loom

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