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Early Morning: The Pokémon Fossil Museum 

Members’ Nights

Collection Quest

Paul Mayer identifying fossils at 2018 Fossil ID Day.

ID Day

WeDigBio: Chicago

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Collections Club

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A group of volunteers gather in a classroom to digitize collections records. They sit at a set of tables arranged in a U shape. A scientists stands in front of the room, explaining the activities for the day.

Andrew W. Mellon Connecting Communities to Collections Program

Reconstructing A 300-Million-Year-Old Cone Solves Paleobotanical Mystery

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Wild Color—here, there, and everywhere!

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Solving the Decades-Long Mystery of Manu

A vertebra bone that has iridescent rainbow coloring on one side.

Working in Paleontology: An Introduction to the Collections

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What should museums do with their dead? (w/ Caitlin Doughty!)

Black and white photograph of a woman in a floral dress with a large bird on her hand, and a small child smiling and standing at her side

Beautiful Strangers: Stories of People and Collections

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Coyote and Wolf Skinning

Shelves of large, ornate books in different colors (green, brown, red, blue), many with gold designs emblazoned on their spines

Four Fascinating Finds in the Rare Book Room

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Colorful illustration of a landscape with palm trees, a stream, and rhino-like animals in front of a sunset

Picturing the Past Through Scientific Illustration

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Treasures Revealed: The Mary W. Runnells Rare Book Room

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Defining the "Edges" of Life On Earth

Compiling an atlas of phylogenetic characters for anomodont therapsids

Caring for a Collection: Equipment

Caring for a Collection: Improvements in Fossil Mammals

Chicago Adventure, Part Two: Catalogue Dialogue

The Spirit Collection

Media

Connecting Biodiversity Research & Collections with Curriculum

Digitization Peña Blanca Spring

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Science at FMNH : Ep. 34 - Why are museum collections important?

Darwin and museum collections

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Rare Book Room

Marie Louise Rosenthal Library

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Birds

Before making storage mounts, Michelle Brownlee measures items that have been deinstalled from the Native North America Hall.

Gantz Family Collections Center

Photo Archives

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

Crown Family PlayLab

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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Grainger Science Hub

Lance Grande

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Paul Mayer

John Bates

Ken Angielczyk

Gary Feinman

Shannon Hackett

Sharon Grant

Alan Resetar

Janet Voight

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Christopher Philipp

Robin Delapena

Ben  Winger

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Nina Cummings

Susan Mochel

Nina Sandlin

Rudiger Bieler

Janeen Jones

Rebecca Banasiak

Ben Marks

Ryan Williams

JP Brown

Darlene Dowdy-Pritchett

Media for Focus: Fossil Invertebrates

Scott Lidgard

Al Newton portrait

Alfred Newton

Bruce Patterson, Curator Emeritus (right), and colleague (left)

Bruce Patterson

Margaret Thayer portrait

Margaret Thayer

Daniel Le

Media for Culture

Jamie Kelly

Community scientists at the Field Museum have digitized more than a quarter-million items and records

New Field Museum exhibition to highlight behind-the-scenes collections

Get Your Mystery Objects Identified at the Field Museum

Authentic 3,000-Year-Old Bronze Age sword put on display at Field Museum

Field Museum joins global effort to inventory natural history collections to spur science and fight climate change

Museum Loan Network: Starr Collection Survey

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StampStarr Collection Ceramic Cat 0947.94838

Museum Loan Network: Yoruba Collection Survey

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Museum Loan Network: Lower Central American Collection Survey

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Museum Loan Network: South African Collection Survey

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Museum Loan Network: Classical Collection Survey

Museum Loan Network

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Museum Loan Network: Grant Collections

Message from the Photo Archives

Gantz Family Collections History

Fieldiana - Publications List

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Library Services

Museum Publications

DNA Lab Highlights

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Library Policies

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Herbarium cases

Botany Policies

Library Online Resources

Paleobotany collection storage area

Geology Policies

Licensing Images and Using Collections Information

N.W. Harris Learning Collection

Collections Preparation and Information Resource

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Mammal Specimen Condition Codes

Founders & Advocates Selected Reading

Insects - Policies

Instructions for Authors

Bill Stanley's Professional Accomplishments

Remembering Bill Stanley

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Research

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Thangka Preservation

Treatment

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Preventive Conservation

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Collections

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Articles and videos

Andrew W. Mellon Connecting Communities to Collections Program

Reconstructing A 300-Million-Year-Old Cone Solves Paleobotanical Mystery

Wild Color—here, there, and everywhere!

Exhibit Halls

Crown Family PlayLab

What Is an Animal? & Animal Biology

Grainger Science Hub

People

Lance Grande

Paul Mayer

John Bates

Ken Angielczyk

Press Releases

Community scientists at the Field Museum have digitized more than a quarter-million items and records

New Field Museum exhibition to highlight behind-the-scenes collections

Get Your Mystery Objects Identified at the Field Museum

Authentic 3,000-Year-Old Bronze Age sword put on display at Field Museum

Related Areas

Rare Book Room

Marie Louise Rosenthal Library

Birds

Gantz Family Collections Center

Related Topics

Museum Loan Network: Starr Collection Survey

Museum Loan Network: Yoruba Collection Survey

Museum Loan Network: Lower Central American Collection Survey

Museum Loan Network: South African Collection Survey

Activities

Collections Club

Events

Early Morning: The Pokémon Fossil Museum

Early Morning: The Pokémon Fossil Museum

Early Morning: The Pokémon Fossil Museum

Members’ Nights