Meet a Scientist in the Grainger Science Hub

Meet a Scientist: Spooky Spider Webs

Meet a Scientist: Neotropical Bats

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

Close-up with a scientist's hands doing fossil preparation with small pnuematic tools

Research Scholarships and Grants

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National Fossil Day

Armour Seminar: Rudiger Bieler

Armour Seminar: Patrícia Rodrigues-Niu

Sounds of Diaspora

Last Call: After the Age of Dinosaurs

Dozin' with the Dinos

Poetry Pop-up: What Is An Animal Poem?

Poetry Pop-up: Space Rock Poetry

Poetry Pop-up: Lives of Plants 

Poetry Pop-up: Typewriter Poets in the Field

Illustration copyright (c) 2026 Kristen Balouch; Published in 2026 by Red Come Press, LLC, Brooklyn, NY

Creating Classroom Libraries: Centering Representation in Children’s Literature

Secrets and Specimens

Observational Drawing Using Unusual Specimens

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

Marshallese Storytelling in the Classroom 

PlayLab PlayDate: Diwali Storytime and Craft

Itty Bitty Explorers: Lost City Explorers

Itty Bitty Explorers: T. rex Teeth & Tails 

Itty Bitty Explorers: Fossil Finder

Armour Seminar: Steve Kessel

Armour Seminar: Bernard Goffinet

Young visitors check out some spooky science at Boo! with SUE

Family Field Nights: Boo with SUE

Threads Tell Stories: How Archaeologists Read Andean Textiles

Poetry Pop-up: On the Wings of Pterosaurs

Stories in Motion: Early Childhood, Identity, Movement, and Making

Native Knowledge 360° Teach In: Cultural Sovereignty and Solidarity on the 250th

Corporate Family Day

Sigamos Adelante: Community and Career Fair

Field Museum Gala 2026

Field Museum Gala

Illinois Free Wednesday 

Educator Open House 2026

Educator Open House

Early Morning events

Early Morning: The Pokémon Fossil Museum  

When is the Museum open?

How can I purchase tickets?

Does the Field Museum have parking available?

What is there to eat at the Field?

Are there hotels near the Field?

Do you have lockers or storage?

Are Collection Quest tickets transferable?

Are Family Night tickets transferable?

Are matching gifts and volunteer grants tax deductible?

Are there any other websites that sell Pokémon Fossil Museum special exhibition tickets?

Are there packages I can purchase to save money when visiting Chicago?

Are there programs that offer free or discounted admission?

Are tickets to the exhibition timed?

Are tickets transferable?

At what time should I arrive at the museum to see the Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibition? 

Can I bring a bag?

Can I bring a wheelchair or stroller?

Can I bring my own food and drinks?

Can I have my wedding, party, or other event at the Field?

Can I leave and come back later?

Can I purchase a meal voucher in person?

Can I purchase a ticket to Collection Quest upon arrival on the day of the event?

Can I purchase a ticket to Family Night upon arrival on the day of the event?

Can I purchase the Pokémon Fossil Museum merchandise outside of the Field Museum?

Can I purchase tickets for the exhibit on the day of my group’s visit? 

Can I receive a refund for students who missed the field trip?

Can I select my timed-entry ticket?

Can I select my timed-entry ticket to the exhibit?

Can I take pictures?

Can you accommodate dietary restrictions?

Can you help me with an online ticketing purchase?

Do active military personnel and Illinois teachers get in free?

Does a ticket to Collection Quest include access to other exhibits in the museum?

Does a ticket to Collection Quest include admission to the Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibit?

Does a ticket to Family Night include access to other exhibits in the museum?

Does a ticket to Family Night include admission to the Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibit?

Does the Field Museum have an approved or preferred vendor list?

Do I have to be vaccinated to come to the Field?

Do I have to wear a mask?

Do the tickets required for the Member Preview Days count against my allotment of Pokémon Fossil Museum tickets?

Do you have a lost and found?

Do you have an adult-sized or universal changing space?

Do you have an area for nursing parents?

Do you have educational resources for students?

Do you have plans to restock Pokémon Fossil Museum merchandise should items sell out?

Do you have sensory-friendly hours?

Do you have wheelchairs or strollers to borrow or rent?

Do you offer free days for Illinois residents?

Starting March 3, Illinois field trip groups may register using our <a href="https://www.fieldmuseum.org/page/register-your-field-trip-group">field trip registration form</a>. &nbsp;All field trips should be booked at least 2 weeks in advance. Limited tickets are reserved for Illinois field trip groups each day.&nbsp;

How can my group register for a field trip to see the Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibition?

How did SUE get to the Field Museum?

How do I book a group visit to the Museum? 

How do I get information on my company's matching gift and volunteer grant programs?

How do I get to the Field?

Pokémon trading Archeops card.

How do I obtain the Pokémon Trading Card Game promo card commemorating the Pokémon Fossil Museum?

How do I purchase a ticket to the Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibition? 

How do I request a matching gift or volunteer grant?

How do I schedule a field trip to the Museum?

After you submit your registration form, you will receive an email with an invoice PDF. You can submit that payment amount by mailing a check before the trip or calling our office at (312) 665-7500 with a credit card.

Payment must be received 2 weeks prior to your trip date. If payment is not received 2 weeks prior to the field trip date, tickets will be released to the general public.

How do I submit payment?

 How long should I plan to spend in the exhibition? 

 How long should my group plan to spend in the exhibition? 

How long will tickets be available for the Pokémon Fossil Museum? 

In order to ensure that groups have a great visit, pre-K through 5th-grade students must be accompanied by a minimum of one adult for every five students and a maximum of one adult for every child. Students in 6th through 12th grade must be accompanied by a minimum of one adult for every ten students and a maximum of one adult for every child.

How many chaperones can my Illinois School Group bring?

 How many Pokemon Fossil Museum special exhibition tickets are included with my membership?

Illinois groups registered at least 2 weeks in advance are allotted a discounted price of $7 per person to enter the &nbsp;Pok&eacute;mon Fossil Museum exhibition. Every person entering the exhibit will need a ticket.

Your group will still be able to enter all General Admission exhibits on your trip.Limited tickets are reserved for Illinois field trip groups each day.

How much are tickets for the Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibition for Illinois field trip groups?

How will I be able to make reservations for Pokémon Fossil Museum?

I didn’t receive an email confirmation for my tickets—who can help me? 

I have Chicago CityPASS®, Go City pass, or am eligible for discounted admission that I cannot reserve online—how can I secure tickets to the Pokémon Fossil Museum?

I have another question about visit Pokémon Fossil Museum—who can I reach out to? 

Have another question you need answered? Visit our expanded Giving FAQ for more answers, or contact our donor support teams at 312.665.7777 or <a href="mailto:supporters@fieldmuseum.org">supporters@fieldmuseum.org.</a>

I have a question not answered here.

I have more questions about Family Night. Who can I talk to?

I have more questions. Who can I talk to?

I’m a member—how can I redeem my member benefits for Pokémon Fossil Museum?

I'm a teacher, what should I expect in the exhibit?

I missed my group’s entry time. What should we do? 

Is a deposit required? Is my deposit refundable?

Is my gift tax-deductible?

Is there any special programming for my students?

Is there wheelchair-accessible parking? 

Unfortunately, there are no scholarships available for this special exhibition. All Illinois students, chaperones, and teachers on the field trip who are visiting the exhibit must pay $7 to enter. You can still book your <a href="https://www.fieldmuseum.org/landing/field-trips">General Admission field trip</a> for free, and visit the Evolving Planet exhibition to learn about fossils.

My group can not pay the $7 per person fee to see the Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibition. Are there any scholarships or free programming?

My ticket to Pokémon Fossil Museum is for after 4:30pm. Don't you close at 5pm?

Tickets for the date I want to visit are not yet available. When will I be able to access those?

What are employee matching gift programs?

What are the purchase limits for Pokémon Fossil Museum merchandise? 

What are the venue rental fees for an event?

What are volunteer grant programs?

What counts as volunteer work?

What does Field Museum Women in Science (FMWIS) membership mean?

 What does my membership include?

What happens if I miss my scheduled entry time? 

What happens if I miss my scheduled entry time for Family Night?

What happens if I miss my scheduled entry time for the exhibit?

What happens if I need to reschedule my group's visit? 

What happens if I need to reschedule my visit? 

What happens if I purchased Collection Quest tickets by mistake?

What happens if I purchased Family Night tickets by mistake?

What has SUE taught us?

What if I forget to submit my matching gift request?

What if I submit a matching gift, or volunteeer grant, outside of the nonprofit's online donation form or dedicated matching gift page?

What if my entire party does not arrive at the same time?

The Field Museum

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Field Favorites in ASL

See the best of what the Field Museum has to offer in this 45-minute guided tour presented in American Sign Language.

What lies within the silky webs of spiders? Join Thomas Marchese as he reveals a hidden world at an unimaginable scale through the use of a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Explore the micro-verse of spiders as Marchese showcases how this powerful tool can be used to closely examine a spider web and uncover the mysterious contents trapped within it.&nbsp;
Presented by&nbsp;Thomas S. Marchese, NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.

See the latest science firsthand in the Grainger Science Hub.

Meet a Scientist

Young visitors and a museum educator examine a teaching specimen together in the Grainger Science Hub

Scientists, researchers, and collections managers are behind the scenes every day, uncovering new information and taking care of our collection.

During Meet a Scientist, you can find them in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibition/halls-and-galleries/grainger-science-hub">Grainger&nbsp;Science Hub</a>. They'll discuss their work and share real items from the museum’s collection of nearly 40 million objects. From collections care to field work, and dinosaurs to ecology, there’s a world of science to explore.

Visit the&nbsp;Science Hub&nbsp;on select weekdays for an up-close look at what our researchers do every day.

Celebrate Bat Week at the Field Museum! &nbsp;Meet Beatriz Dybas da Natividade and Dr Amanda Grunwald, and hear about their field seasons in the Dominican Republic and Peru, while you examine bat specimens and learn about their diversity in the Neotropics. Discover why bats are not something to be feared, but are instead&nbsp;amazing creatures vital to the health of the natural world and economy.
Presented by&nbsp;Beatriz Dybas da Natividade, PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Dr Amanda Grunwald, Post-doc researcher at the Field Museum.

Dr Lieberman will sign copies of his book, Fed Up, following the lecture.&nbsp;

How many times a day do you ask the question, “What should I eat?” Are you confused and overwhelmed by the thousands of factory-made foods supermarkets sell? Or the abundance of diets (paleo, Mediterranean, low-fat, low-carb, low-calorie, intermittent fasting, vegan, vegetarian, carnivore) claimed to optimize your health and manage your weight?&nbsp;
In this talk and his new book, Fed Up, best-selling author and Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman tackles this confusion. Drawing on evolutionary biology, anthropology, physiology, and medical science, he explores how our ancestors never evolved to choose their food to lose weight or live to 100. Instead, we evolved to eat almost anything in order to survive.&nbsp;
By telling the fascinating story of diets from seven million years ago to the present and using myth-busting science to evaluate today’s most popular diets, Lieberman explains what everyone needs to know to make wiser, kinder choices about what to eat. This talk will help you understand why no diet is flawless, though some are better than others.
This event will be presented in-person at the Field Museum and live-streamed to pre-registered guests. Please fill out the registration form below to reserve your spot. Only pre-registered guests receive free basic admission to the Field Museum.&nbsp;

Presented in partnership with

The Leakey Foundation

Additional support provided by

C2ST 

Join us for author events and discussions!

Author Talk and Book Signing

Left, book cover for Fed Up; What Evolution Reveals About Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well; Right, the author, Daniel E. Lieberman.

<h3 dir="ltr">About the Author</h3>

Daniel Lieberman is the Edwin M Lerner II Professor of Biological Science, founding Chair of Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and a member of The Leakey Foundation’s Scientific Executive Committee. He studies and teaches how and why the human body is the way it is, and the relevance of human evolution to contemporary health. He is best known for his research on the evolution and biology of long-distance running (including barefoot running) and the evolution of the highly unusual human head. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and four books: Fed Up:&nbsp; What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well (Knopf, 2026), Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding (Pantheon, 2021), The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease (Pantheon, 2013), and The Evolution of the Human Head (Harvard University Press, 2011). He is an avid runner and loves to cook.&nbsp;

Join us at our annual paleontology event celebrating all things fossils! See rarely displayed specimens from the collections, meet scientists, and take part in hands-on activities exploring prehistoric life on Earth.&nbsp;
The Field Museum is free on Wednesdays for Illinois Residents.

Celebrate National Fossil Day at the Field Museum!

Join us for a talk by Rudiger Bieler from the Field Museum.
This session will take place in Ward Hall on the lower level.
The A. Watson Armour III Seminar Series is a weekly seminar highlighting the research of science professionals across a broad spectrum of scientific interests, disciplines, and lived experiences. This series connects the Field Museum’s research, collections, conservation, and associated community with professionals at the forefront of life, geophysical, and social sciences. Lectures are open to the public and regularly highlight or complement research conducted by Field Museum staff and affiliates.
Have a speaker to suggest? Contact us at armourseminars@fieldmuseum.org.

A. Watson Armour III Research Seminar Series

This event is part of our celebration of <a href="https://www.fieldmuseum.org/activity/latin-american-heritage-month">Latin American Heritage Month</a>.&nbsp;

Thank you to all the Field Museum staff who helped organize LAHM programming.

Join us for a talk by Patrícia Rodrigues-Niu, University of Notre Dame, Department of Anthropology.
This session will take place in Ward Hall on the lower level.
The A. Watson Armour III Seminar Series is a weekly seminar highlighting the research of science professionals across a broad spectrum of scientific interests, disciplines, and lived experiences. This series connects the Field Museum’s research, collections, conservation, and associated community with professionals at the forefront of life, geophysical, and social sciences. Lectures are open to the public and regularly highlight or complement research conducted by Field Museum staff and affiliates.
Have a speaker to suggest? Contact us at armourseminars@fieldmuseum.org.

Join us for an afternoon of diasporic sounds as we celebrate the opening of Soul of the Stone, an exhibit about telling stories of history through handcrafted visual art. &nbsp;
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Living Cultures: Global Sounds, Shared Stories

Details coming soon! 

Join us for a wild after-hours adventure at the Field Museum, where we’ll explore the dramatic end of the age of dinosaurs—and the astonishing world that came next. In this exclusive 21+ evening, discover how a colossal asteroid ended the dinosaurs’ reign and helped pave the way for the world we know today.
Get up close with incredible specimens and meet the experts who study them. Interact with Field scientists and put your prehistoric knowledge to the test with hands-on activities. Plus, enjoy rare after-hours access to the After the Age of Dinosaurs exhibition before it closes.
Whether you’re a lifelong dinosaur enthusiast, a curious fossil hunter, or simply looking for a fun night out, Last Call: After the Age of Dinosaurs delivers an evening packed with discovery, interaction, and prehistoric surprises.
Tickets include access to select exhibitions and special programming, snacks, and an open bar of beer, wine and our specialty cocktail.

Enjoy an evening at the museum, with access to the latest special exhibition!

Last Call

See After the Age of Dinosaurs before it closes!

Price

Additional food and beverages will be available for purchase.

All ticket sales are final. Please email us at <a href="mailto:adults@fieldmuseum.org">adults@fieldmuseum.org</a> or call 312.665.7303 with any questions.&nbsp;

Please carefully review our updated policy regarding age requirements for Dozin' with the Dinos attendees.

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<li>Children under the age of 6 will not be admitted into a Dozin' with the Dinos event. Families and groups with children under the age of 6 may be asked to leave the event without a refund.</li>
<li>Adults may not attend Dozin' with the Dinos without a child between the ages of 6-12. If you attend the event and do not have children in your party, you will be asked to leave the event without a refund.</li>
<li>If you've purchased tickets incorrectly by mistake, you have until 2 weeks prior to the event to request a refund. After the two week period no refunds will be given, and you will not be admitted to the event.</li>
</ul>

If you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out via email: overnights@fieldmuseum.org or give us a call at 312-665-7525.

Age Policy

See the Field Museum in a whole new light! Families and groups with kids ages 6 to 14 can spend the night at the museum during Dozin’ with the Dinos.
Stay up late with scientists as the Field Museum comes to life in games, challenges, and stories throughout the night. Will you dissect owl pellets and identify animal tracks to become the next great wildlife detective? Or, will you embark on a paleontologist’s expedition to learn how fossils form? Choose from these challenges and more as the night unfolds. No two nights at the museum are the same, but each is an adventure!
<h3>Tickets for 2027 Dozin' events go on sale soon!</h3>
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<li>Monday, August 17th - Members</li>
<li>Monday, August 24th - General Public</li>
</ul>
Tickets to Dozin’ with the Dinos scheduled for January, February, and March will include admission to the Pokémon Fossil Museum. Timed tickets will be assigned to all Dozin’ ticketholders prior to the event. All sales are final.

Dozin&rsquo; with the Dinos is supported by Utz Brands&nbsp;

Acknowledgments

Utz Brands

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The smallest of museum visitors can get up close and personal with the largest dinos at our special events.

Science is more fun in your pajamas.

Programs & Series

Events by Audience

Meet a Scientist: Spooky Spider Webs

Meet a Scientist: Neotropical Bats

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

National Fossil Day

Armour Seminar: Rudiger Bieler

Armour Seminar: Patrícia Rodrigues-Niu

Heritage Months

PlayLab PlayDate: Diwali Storytime and Craft

Sigamos Adelante: Community and Career Fair

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Meet a Scientist: Spooky Spider Webs

Meet a Scientist: Neotropical Bats

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

National Fossil Day

Armour Seminar: Rudiger Bieler

Armour Seminar: Patrícia Rodrigues-Niu

Heritage Months

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PlayLab PlayDate: Diwali Storytime and Craft

Sigamos Adelante: Community and Career Fair

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Saturday, October 17

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Friday, October 30

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Thursday, October 29

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