By The CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
What if you could shrink to the size of a bug and burrow beneath the surface of the earth?
What if you could hear the lonesome clawing of a mole cricket and the mysterious chatter of an ant colony?
There's just one place on earth -- or under it -- where you can do that and more: Chicago Field Museum's ''Underground Adventure.''
Opening in March and running permanently, the $10 million exhibition is a 15,000-square-foot total immersion environment where visitors, ''shrunk'' to 1/1000 their normal size, walk through a larger-than-life underground soil ecosystem.
''Underground Adventure'' tells a story about the incredible diversity of life on our planet and about the interconnectedness of all living things. By focusing on soil -- literally immersing visitors in it -- the exhibition finds a fascinating entry into the subject of soil, what lives in soil and how soil helps things live.
IF YOU GO
What: ''Underground Adventure,'' interactive exhibition on soil.
When: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, except Christmas and New Year's Day.
Where: Field Museum, Lake Shore Drive at Roosevelt Road, Chicago.
Cost: $7, $4 seniors, children 3-17. Free Wednesday.
Information: (312) 922-9410; (314) 341-9299 TDD (for hearing-impaired).
http://www.academystudios.com/cfm.html
