Tool Traditions Display Cases in the First Peoples Gallery
- In 2005, Tawani Foundation pledged $250,000 to the Field Museum to fund the Tool Traditions Display Cases in the First Peoples Gallery. This very important permanent exhibit is designed to preserve historical artifacts and to present these artifacts to the public.
- Tawani Foundation entered into a major new initiative with the Field Museum in 2008. The Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteorites and Polar Studies will be created at the Field through a $7.3 Million grant from Tawani Foundation. This Institute combines the Field’s existing collection of meteorites with the Planetary Studies Foundation and DuPont collections, allowing the Field Museum to house the world’s fifth largest meteorite collection to be endowed in perpetuity.
The Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies has made a terrific impact on The Field Museum. The gift enables the Museum to sustain leadership in the area of meteoritic science and to conduct and promote research on the one of the largest meteorite collections in the world. The gift will also allow us to leverage our scientific resources and influence in the areas of polar studies, by expanding our activity in antarctic paleontology, zoology, botany and conservation. We are honored to share our scientific findings with the scientific community and with the public and feel privileged to have received such an institution changing gift.
