Our weekly seminar series features speakers and their research related to the study of natural history and culture. This session features Brian Weeks, School for Environment and Sustainability, ...

Museum open daily, 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm. Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.

Field Museum herpetologist, Sara Ruane, focus of fifth installment of series Museum open daily, 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm. Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.

All living things—including you!—contain remarkable feats of engineering. Investigate nature’s mechanical marvels in The Machine Inside: Biomechanics. You’ll uncover surprising strengths and hidden ...

Let your poems soar with our pterosaurs. Eric will be on the upper level near the perching quetzalcoatlus replica. Imagine what it would feel like to stand next to a T. rex. Ponder what flowers ...

In the early 1930s, the Field Museum commissioned sculptor Malvina Hoffman to create bronze sculptures for an exhibition called The Races of Mankind. Hoffman, who trained under Auguste Rodin, traveled ...

Explore cultures present and past, find the latest scientific discoveries, and travel the world right here in Chicago.

Despite our planet’s astounding biodiversity, all life on Earth has one thing in common: DNA. It contains the genetic keys to development and reproduction, from microscopic bacteria to plants, fungi, ...