Leak Causes Field Museum Shuffle

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Apr 6, 2009 5:20PM

Employees at the Field Museum had one of "those mornings" last Friday. A museum alarm went off around 5 a.m. Friday morning, alerting workers that there was a leak in the roof in a large storage room on the third floor that houses around 25,000 artifacts. The cause of the leak was a broken drainage pipe and workers moved quickly to relocate around 200 artifacts that had already gotten wet. Lance Grande, a senior vice president of the museum, confirmed that three of the artifacts were damaged but that they would be restored later this week. The museum hopes to have the pipe repaired by tomorrow. [Tribune, ABC 7]