The exhibition will debut alongside a companion show, Connecting Threads: Africa Fashion in Chicago ...

Join us for an exclusive after-hours event featuring our latest special exhibition, interactive family-friendly activities, and an engaging panel discussion with Field Museum experts in the James ...

Open your camera roll and start scrolling: we need YOUR picture purr-fect cat pictures for our special exhibition—Cats: Predators to Pets. Each month while Cats is open, you can submit themed images ...

The famous vertebrate fossils in our collection began as massive hunks of rock. Watch preparators ready fossilized specimens for display or research in the McDonald’s Fossil Preparation Laboratory.

Early learners are invited to explore world cultures through music, experience everyday life in a recreated pueblo, create artwork in a Discovery Studio, or play paleontologist with dinosaur bones—and ...

From the Permian through the Jurassic, journey to the south polar landscapes of Antarctica hundreds of millions of years ago. Roam the primitive forests and thick swamps with bizarre dinosaurs and ...

Corporate Members* are warmly invited to spend a delightful day at the Museum! Take a leisurely stroll through the amazing Elizabeth Morse Genius Hall of Dinosaurs, or explore one or both of our ...

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

Computed Tomography (CT) is a very useful technique for non-destructively examining the interior of museum objects in three dimensions. A regular X-radiograph provides a picture of the interior of an ...

Explore cultures present and past, find the latest scientific discoveries, and travel the world right here in Chicago.

This lyrical memoir is the epic story of one woman’s life-changing journey across four continents to reconcile the past with the present—and find her place in the world. When Tara Roberts first ...