Members Nights 2019

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17072017 Pamanang Pinoy: A Retrospective

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PlayLab PlayDates

PlayLab PlayDate: Marvelous Mushrooms!

Dozin' with the Dinos 

WTTW First Wednesdays

WTTW First Wednesday

Professional Development for Educators

Experiential Learning with the Field Museum at the Pullman National Historical Park

Cultural Programming

Celebrate Diwali at the Field Museum!

Meet a Scientist

Ka-thunk! We Can Prevent Bird Collisions

Black Hawk Performance Company

Join Us for an Exclusive After-Hours Adventure!

Members’ Nights

Members' Nights 2027

Tlingit Artist James Johnson: Haa Shagoon—The Path Forward 

Exploring Indigenous Ingenuity in Ancient Americas

Get your poems into gear! Meet Eric in The Machine Inside: Biomechanics

Poetry Pop-up

Poetry Pop-up: Poetic Mechanics

Join Eric in the Ronald and Christina Gidwitz Hall of Birds and make poetry for the birds!

Poetry Pop-up: Poetry is the Thing with Feathers

A. Watson Armour III Research Seminar Series

Armour Seminar: Pia Viglietti

Last Call

Last Call: After the Age of Dinosaurs

Mongolian Fossil Plants

Escape the chill and unwind at the cozy Member Holiday Lounge! 

Members’ Holiday Lounge

Itty Bitty Explorers

Itty Bitty Explorers: T. rex Teeth & Tails

Author Talk and Book Signing

Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well 

WTTW First Wednesday 

Illinois Free Wednesdays

Illinois Free Wednesday

WTTW First Wednesday  

Armour Seminar: Henry Hooghiemstra 

Legendary Late Hours

Marshallese Storytelling in the Classroom 

Itty Bitty Explorers: Lost City Explorers

Itty Bitty Explorers: T. rex Teeth & Tails 

Itty Bitty Explorers: Fossil Finder

Illinois Free Wednesday  

Field Favorites in ASL

After the Age of Dinosaurs

Pokémon Fossil Museum

VR Transporter at the Field Museum

Drop in the Ocean

Adult Rex Sunset Burst: UNLEASHING THE GREATEST OF ALL TYRANTS: The GOAT roars to life again in the epic new documentary T. REX

T.REX: The Story of SUE 3D

Penguin Island 3D

Black-eyed Susans in the foreground with the North side of the Field Museum in the background.

Rice Native Gardens

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June 10th marks the Field Museum’s Annual Giving Day!

Science

Cyrus Tang Hall of China 99 (Hewett 2018)

Culture

Native Seed Harvesting

Community

McDonald's Prep Lab staff at microscopes.

Discovery

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Left: Emily Cornelius Ruhs measuring the skull of a Madagascar flying fox in the Field Museum's collections. Photo © Field Museum. Right: A flying fox in Madagascar. Photo by Angelo Andrianiaina.

Flying fox fruit bats are shrinking

Left: Allison Sefcovic and Payton Kohlberg hold epoxy sculptures of their new species, Jeanerpeton mazonensis. Photo credit: Arjan Mann. Right: Photo and illustration of the fossil of Jeanerpeton mazonensis. Credit: Allison Sefcovic

Mother of amphibians: New species of proto-amphibian described by two student scientists, named in honor of their moms

Left: a spider-tailed horned viper. Photo by Omid Mozaffari. Right: XCT scan showing the normal bones inside the snake’s bizarre tail. Image courtesy of Sara Ruane and Stephanie Smith.

A fake spider at the tip of this snake’s tail helps it lure birds. Scientists got their first look inside the “spider.”

Left: the fossil feather preserved in dinosaur poop. (Credit: O’Connor et al.) Right: an illustration of a tyrannosaur preying on an ancient diving bird. (Credit: Andrey Atuchin)

A fossil feather preserved inside dinosaur poop could help explain why birds survived the mass extinction

Press Room

Visit

Michael B.

Simply one of the best natural history museums anywhere.

View of Full Circle/Omani Wakan exhibition, showing multiple display cases, each housing intricately detailed figures.

Full Circle/Omani Wakan: Lakota Artist Rhonda Holy Bear

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Simply one of the best natural history museums anywhere.

Ram R.

The museum is full of amazing facts and provides a fantastic educational experience.

The museum is full of amazing facts and provides a fantastic educational experience.

Danielle R.

You get to get up close to all of the exhibits, which is super cool for kids and adults.

You get to get up close to all of the exhibits, which is super cool for kids and adults.

Tanner C.

The upper level is great, and the dinosaur and China exhibits were particular standouts.

The upper level is great, and the dinosaur and China exhibits were particular standouts.

The amount of beautiful taxidermy is insane and I had the time of my life.

The amount of beautiful taxidermy is insane and I had the time of my life.

David

Whether you&rsquo;re an expert or just a casual enthusiast, there&rsquo;s something for everyone here.

Whether you’re an expert or just a casual enthusiast, there’s something for everyone here.

Visitor services helping a guest in Stanley Field Hall

Tickets & Pricing

Entrance to Soldier Field parking garage with Field Museum visible in background

Directions & Parking

Native Truths Opening (Young 2022)

Accessibility

Excavator Pikachu

Pokémon Fossil Museum Programming

Welcome to the Field

What's on

Students gather around a window to peer into a diorama featuring three bears in their natural habitat.

Field Trip Experiences

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Nature Walk & Messages from the Wilderness

View of the Grainger Hall of Gems from the entrance, with many display cases visible. A stained glass window featuring a mermaid is visible in the center.

Grainger Hall of Gems

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Hall of Gems Photograph

Meet the Chicago Archaeopteryx

SUE stands proudly in their suite located in the Field Museum’s Evolving Planet exhibition. An animated forest is visible in the background.

Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet & SUE the T. rex

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Two visitors stand in between glasses cases in Plants of the World. They are standing to their side, looking straight forward at plant models. A replica tobacco plant is displayed in its own case at the front of the hallway.

Plants of the World

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Plants of the World 

Searle Family Lounge

Meteorites

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Girl in the meteorites  gallery using a touch screen

Audubon's Birds of America

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Image for Audubon's Birds of America

The Brooker Gallery

Visitors explore a bird’s-eye view replica of Teotihuacan, the largest city in the Americas (and one of the largest in the world) between AD 100 and 700.

Robert R. McCormick Halls of the Ancient Americas

View of the circular interior of the Pawnee Earth Lodge, with various replica objects displayed around the circular hearth in the center and on the walls.

Pawnee Earth Lodge

A group of young visitors enjoy an exhibit in The Machine Inside exhibition.

The Machine Inside: Biomechanics

Kids in the PlayLab make music (or joyful noise) with instruments from around the world.

Crown Family PlayLab

Two visitors sit together on a bench, looking at life-size sculptures of people by Malvina Hoffman. In the foreground several bronze busts are displayed in a glass case.

Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman

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Two people stand in the Restoring Earth exhibition, looking at a peregrine falcon specimen.

Abbott Hall of Conservation: Restoring Earth

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Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories

View of the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice DNA Discovery Center, prominently showing a large model of a DNA double helix and an interactive touchscreen table. Windows in the background look into the Pritzker Laboratory for Evolutionary Biology and Molecular Sy

DNA Discovery Center

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A woman holds up a little boy as they look into a taxidermy case filled with snakes, squirrels, and another small mammal.

What Is an Animal? & Animal Biology

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A three-quarter view of the front of the Maori Meeting HouseCarvings decorate the house’s walls and beams. At the apex of the gabled roof are two carved faces. One is Ruatepupuke, for whom this house is named.

Maori Meeting House, Ruatepupuke II

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Maori Meeting House Ruatepupuke II

Once preparators complete their extractions, the finished fossils are examined and compared with related fossils, forming the data for a published study—the final step in the process.

McDonald’s Fossil Preparation Lab

Media for Inside Ancient Egypt

Inside Ancient Egypt

Amerika Samoa exhibition co-curator, Reggie Meredith Fitiao works on a community-made siapo (painted cloth) featured in the temporary exhibition located in the Regenstein Halls of the Pacific.

Amerika Samoa

Two boys stand in front of a reproduction of a crayfish more than twice their size. The boy to the left crouches, looking down into a window cut in floor. Recreated soil and roots are visible behind them.

Underground Adventure

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Audubon Meadowlarks

Audubon’s Birds of America

Sobek the Spinosaurus

Grainger Science Hub

Entrance to the Africa Hall  permenant exhibition

Africa

Regenstein Halls of the Pacific

Woolly Dogs

A kid stands in the middle of a gallery, looking at an interactive screen outside a display case full of large flightless birds. There are four other display cases with taxidermied birds in the room. In the right foreground, another visitor can be seen through the glass of a display, looking at the specimens inside.

Ronald and Christina Gidwitz Hall of Birds

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View of the inside of the Malott Hall of Jades. A prominent sign with the Chinese character for “jade” is visible in the foreground.

Elizabeth Hubert Malott Hall of Jades

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Two young visitors reach down to touch the foot of Máximo, a cast of the largest dinosaur ever discovered. The foot is raised on a black platform and the two visitors learn forward to touch the front of the foot.

Máximo the Titanosaur

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The first gallery of the Cyrus Tang Hall of China, with a map table in the foreground and a large circle of video screens above the exhibition display cases.

Cyrus Tang Hall of China

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Welcome to the Field

What's on

Pokémon Fossil Museum

After the Age of Dinosaurs

VR Transporter at the Field Museum

Drop in the Ocean

T.REX: The Story of SUE 3D

Penguin Island 3D

Pokémon Fossil Museum

Plan your day at the Museum

Tickets & Pricing

Directions & Parking

Accessibility

Pokémon Fossil Museum Programming

Join us for an event

Explore the Museum

Rice Native Gardens

Nature Walk & Messages from the Wilderness

Grainger Hall of Gems

Meet the Chicago Archaeopteryx

Experience more as a member

Our scientists at work

Flying fox fruit bats are shrinking

Mother of amphibians: New species of proto-amphibian described by two student scientists, named in honor of their moms

A fake spider at the tip of this snake’s tail helps it lure birds. Scientists got their first look inside the “spider.”

A fossil feather preserved inside dinosaur poop could help explain why birds survived the mass extinction

The Field Museum connects all of us to the natural world and the human story.

Welcome to the Field

What's on

Image slideshow

Pokémon Fossil Museum

After the Age of Dinosaurs

VR Transporter at the Field Museum

Drop in the Ocean

T.REX: The Story of SUE 3D

Penguin Island 3D

Plan your day at the Museum

Tickets & Pricing

Directions & Parking

Accessibility

Pokémon Fossil Museum Programming

Join us for an event

Explore the Museum

Rice Native Gardens

Nature Walk & Messages from the Wilderness

Grainger Hall of Gems

Meet the Chicago Archaeopteryx

Experience more as a member

Our scientists at work

Flying fox fruit bats are shrinking

Mother of amphibians: New species of proto-amphibian described by two student scientists, named in honor of their moms

A fake spider at the tip of this snake’s tail helps it lure birds. Scientists got their first look inside the “spider.”

A fossil feather preserved inside dinosaur poop could help explain why birds survived the mass extinction

The Field Museum connects all of us to the natural world and the human story.