Projects & Impact

What you see on exhibition at the Field Museum is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Thangka Preservation

Thangkas are beautiful and complex pieces of Tibetan Buddhist religious artwork that originated around 600 AD. Field Museum conservators designed storage and treatment processes to prolong the life of these important devotional items.

Project Library

Field Museum staff at every level are creating, innovating, and improving: in scientific research and discovery, collections care and management, exhibition design and visitor engagement, data and technology, and more.

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North entrance to the Field Museum

PEET: Lasiosphaeriaceae

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The Diros Project

Detail of a transformation mask (shown open), representing a shaman, which was fashioned from carved and painted cedar by Xániyus (Bob Harris) before 1893. Kwakiutl, Vancouver Island, Northwest Coast.

North America Collections

Publications

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Adventures in the Herbarium: Museums and Medicines
The importance and impact of Field Museum’s African flowering plant specimens are highlighted in two podcasts. These podcasts were written, recorded, and edited by two college interns who worked alongside experts and collections specimens. Museums and Medicines highlights the impact plant specimens have had on human health and why their conservation is so important.

ActivityGrades 3-12
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Being Big on Land
Learn why being big isn’t always an advantage and find out how mythic creatures like Godzilla and King Kong could never have carried their own weight.

VideoGrades 3-12
- See English video
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Bergmann's Rule | Biomechanics Toolkit
Uncover how an animal’s size affects its ability to regulate temperature.

Lesson PlanGrades 6-8
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News

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The entrance to the Africa hall, with brightly colored murals painted on the walls.

Renovations to the Field Museum’s Africa Hall, opening in 2028, will celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of African cultures, while highlighting complex innovations and new research on the world’s longest record of the human story

Left: A skull and skin of an vole with a museum label. Right: Two scientists look at drawers containing chipmunk specimens in the museum collection area.

Chicago’s rodents are evolving to handle city living

Left: An aerial view of a winding river surrounded by trees and vegetation; Right: A large, brown monkey climbing in a tree.

Newly-declared conservation area in Peru is home to pink dolphins, giant armadillos, and woolly monkeys

An large colorful chameleon perched on a branch

New exhibition journeys through the world of reptiles, while uncovering their extraordinary adaptations

Zoology Projects

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PEET - BIVALVES: Taxonomy on the half-shell

Face of a female Dwarf Spider.

Dwarf Spider ID Gallery

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Milli-PEET: The class Diplopoda

More Projects

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Collections Preparation and Information Resource

North entrance to the Field Museum

The PEET Program

Botany Projects

PEET: Lasiosphaeriaceae