After four years of planning, the Field Museum will close its Africa Hall on October 6, 2025. Since 1993, the Field Museum’s Africa Hall has told stories of richly diverse cultures and showcased some ...

The Field Museum connects all of us to the natural world and the human story. Located on Chicago’s iconic Lake Michigan shore, the Field Museum opened its current building to the public in 1921—but ...

Flying is really hard work. Compared to walking, swimming, or running, flying is the form of movement that takes the most energy and requires the most calories. That means that birds have had to ...

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the stone tools were made during a harsh ice age In central China, scientists ...

Everyone knows that Tyrannosaurus rex was the biggest and baddest thing around during the age of the dinosaurs. But what else was out there? What was the biggest thing before the T. rex? Scientists at ...

The quest to honor a piece of museum history. In 2015, our science/education YouTube channel, The Brain Scoop, teamed up with museum fans from all over the world to fund the creation of the Field ...

The Field Museum is pleased to consider requests to support fundraising events. Below are the guidelines for receiving a donation. While we would like to contribute to every organization, the volume ...

The Field Museum commits to honor and respect this history and heritage in the fulfillment of our Mission, Strategic Objectives, and Core Values. The Museum is built on the traditional homelands of ...

4.5 billion years. 27,000 square feet of evolutionary exploration. In the Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet, get to know the many creatures that have roamed the earth throughout history, from ...

Home to more than 40 million items—from the towering, 28-foot-long Titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum to the delicately spiraled shell of the miniscule sea snail Alvania microglypta, only about 1% of our ...