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 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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Left: Feathers from a baby bird that lived 99 million years ago, preserved in amber. Photo by Shundong Bi. Right: Illustration of what a newly hatched Enantiornithine bird may have looked like. Every ...

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 ...

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 ...

Location, location, location—it’s the first rule of real estate. For a long time, it’s been widely assumed that being close to resources drives settlement patterns, with cities generally founded near ...