During Meet a Scientist, you can find them in the Grainger Science Hub. They'll discuss their work and share real items from the museum’s collection of nearly 40 million objects. From collections care ...

The specimens, artifacts, and objects in the Field Museum’s collection are only the first 40 million reasons scientists flock from all over the world to work with this world-class institution. Every ...

The Field Museum combines the research of its world-renowned scientific staff with its award-winning design expertise to create high-quality traveling exhibitions. Clients as varied as art museums, ...

Museum open daily, 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm. Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day ...

Come celebrate World Snake Day with Field Museum Associate Curator of Herpetology Sara Ruane! Sara will discuss snakes found locally and from around the world. Visitors can also get an up-close look ...

Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynoñán with the carving of a mythological bird creature in La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas. Photo by the Ucupe Cultural Landscape Archaeological Project A team of ...

A fossil called Tanystropheus was first described in 1852, and it’s been puzzling scientists ever since. At one point, paleontologists thought it was a flying pterosaur, like a pterodactyl, and that ...

Seriously, it’s going to be sweet. All right, mammals. At noon on February 5th, 2018, The Field Museum will begin removing me, SUE the T. rex, from Stanley Field Hall. I will be moving upstairs to a ...

Lithouva - the earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years old from Colombia. Top figure shows fossil accompanied with CT scan reconstruction. Bottom shows artist ...

Stars have life cycles. They’re born when bits of dust and gas floating through space find each other and collapse in on each other and heat up. They burn for millions to billions of years, and then ...

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