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Exhibitions
From Evolving Planet to the Ancient Americas, there are so many exciting reasons to visit the Field Museum. Learn more below.
Who was Genghis Khan – a ruthless warrior, or a revered statesman?
Discover how The Field Museum is leading the way in conservation by putting science into action in Abbott Hall of Conservation Restoring Earth, opening November 4, 2011.
Shrink to the size of a bug and discover the world beneath your feet!
Visit Chicago’s only completely digital 3-D theater!
See the largest, most complete T. rex ever discovered!
The Field Museum houses one of the nation’s largest mummy collections. Discover what we can learn about ancient life by examining beliefs about death in Inside Ancient Egypt.
Journey through 4 billion years of life on earth!
Get a rare look at the life of Field Museum scientist Dr. Corrie Moreau, and learn how her childhood love for insects spurred a career dedicated to researching ants.
Marvel in the beauty and splendor of gemstones in The Field Museum’s newly renovated Grainger Hall of Gems.
The place for your littlest explorers!
Step into the windswept world of Ice Age mammoth hunters. Walk through a replica of an 800-year-old pueblo dwelling and imagine your entire family cooking, eating, and sleeping in one small room. Explore the Aztec empire and its island capital, Tenochtitlan, a city of more than 200,000 people and an extraordinary feat of engineering for any era.
Witness the amazing story behind Africa's notorious man-eating lions of Tsavo.
DNA is the thread that connects all life, but what do you really know about it? In this permanent exhibition, discover what DNA is, how it works, and what it can tell us about all life on Earth—including ourselves. Come visit us and talk to a scientist every week day from 11 am to noon.
Join a Field-Museum-led team of scientists as they search the world for over 300 bivalve species – including clams and oysters.
BLOOD/STONES: Burmese Rubies offers an intimate view on the hardships caused by natural resource exploitation, and addresses the crises that Myanmar’s citizens face today.
Discovered in 1996 and dating to A.D.300, uncover the stories hidden in its imagery in this rare public viewing.
Uncover extraordinary stories of travel, scientific discovery, and rare encounters, only at The Field Museum.
Discover the stone that is more than a stone in The Field Museum’s Elizabeth Hubert Malott Hall of Jades.
The abalone shells that shine from these carved walls are said to be the eyes of ancestors watching over those who gather at this Maori Meeting House.
Discover how scientists prepare ancient specimens for study and watch over the shoulder of experts at work as they excavate hidden treasures in the McDonald’s Fossil Prep Lab.
Explore Pacific Spirits to see ceremonial masks and sacred treasures collected a century ago in Melanesia—before global politics and 20th-century technology brought dramatic change to the Pacific Islands.
Visit this life-size Pawnee Earth Lodge for an interactive and immersive glimpse of what life was like for the Pawnee living on the plains of Nebraska in the 1800s.
Visit Traveling the Pacific to discover how this vessel stays steady on the swells of the Pacific Ocean. Built by a modern fisherman, this outrigger canoe’s basic design is thousands of years old.
This carved statue, called a nkondi and made by the Bakongo people, is one of many artifacts in the Africa exhibition that are also recognized as significant works of art.
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Hours
Open every day except Christmas. 9am - 5pm
Location
1400 S Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60605
