Olmec colossal heads
The Olmec colossal heads are stone representations of human heads sculpted from large basalt boulders. They range in height from 1.17 to 3.4 metres. The heads date from at least 900 BCE and are a distinctive feature of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica.Photo: Glysiak, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: sculpture
- Description: stone representations of human heads from the Olmec civilization
- Also known as: “Olmec colossal head”, “Olmec Colossal Heads”, “Olmec Colossal Heads (17 known examples)”, and “Olmec Head”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Field Museum of Natural History and Soldier Field.
The Field Museum of Natural History
Museum
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The Field Museum of Natural History, also commonly called the Field Museum, is a private–public natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The Field Museum of Natural History is situated 470 feet southwest of Olmec colossal heads.
Soldier Field
Stadium
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Soldier Field is a multi-purpose stadium on the Near South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1924, the stadium has served as the home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League since 1971, as well as Chicago Fire FC of Major League Soccer since 2020. Soldier Field is situated 1,700 feet south of Olmec colossal heads.
Man with Fish
Work of art
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Man with Fish is an outdoor fountain and sculpture by German artist Stephan Balkenhol, installed outside Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is made from bronze that was then painted, and is 16 feet tall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Museum Campus and South Loop.
Museum Campus
Locality
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Museum Campus is a 57-acre park in Chicago along Lake Michigan. It encompasses five of the city's major attractions: the Adler Planetarium, America's first planetarium; the Shedd Aquarium; the Field Museum of Natural History; Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League; and the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place.
South Loop
Quarter
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South Loop is a Chicago neighborhood south of the Loop. The South Branch of the Chicago River flows through it. Chinatown is adjacent to the southwest, and Museum Campus is to its east.
Dearborn Park
Neighborhood
Dearborn Park is a residential Chicago neighborhood in South Loop. It is part of the Loop and Near South Side community areas of Chicago, and has a public park of the same name.
Olmec colossal heads
- Categories: colossal statue, head of a statue, and tourism
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.86715° or 41° 52′ 2″ northLongitude
-87.61572° or 87° 36′ 57″ westOpen location code
86HJV98M+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 3554682901OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=sculptureWikidata ID
Q3062269
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Olmec colossal heads” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “colossa”
- Arabic: “رؤوس الأولمك الضخمة”
- Belarusian: “Гіганцкія каменныя галовы альмекаў”
- Catalan: “Caps colossals olmeques”
- Chinese: “奥尔梅克巨型头颅”
- Chinese: “奧爾梅克巨型頭顱”
- Chinese: “奧爾梅克巨大頭”
- Chinese: “奧爾梅克巨石頭像”
- Czech: “olmécká obrovitá hlava”
- Esperanto: “olmekaj kolosaj kapoj”
- Esperanto: “Olmekaj kolosaj kapoj”
- French: “tête colossale olmèque”
- French: “Tête colossale olmèque”
- French: “tête colossale”
- Hebrew: “פסלי הראש הענקיים של העם האולמקי”
- Indonesian: “Kepala-kepala raksasa Olmek”
- Italian: “Teste colossali olmeche”
- Japanese: “巨石人頭像”
- Korean: “올멕 거대 두상”
- Persian: “سرهای اولمک”
- Portuguese: “Cabeça colossal olmeca”
- Russian: “Гигантские каменные головы ольмеков”
- Slovenian: “kolosalne glave Olmekov”
- Slovenian: “olmeška kolosalna glava”
- Spanish: “Cabeza colosal olmeca”
- Spanish: “Cabeza colosal”
- Spanish: “Cabeza Olmeca”
- Spanish: “sin cabeza”
- Ukrainian: “Колосальні кам’яні голови ольмеків”
- Venetian: “Kike”
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Highlights include Welcome Garden and Phelps Theater.
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