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Digitization
July 08th, 2012
White light three dimensional scanner in the Division of Fishes at The Field Museum scanning a fossil fish.
November 25th, 2011
Check out what happens when you put together a team of Anthropologists from The Field Museum, Egyptian mummies and a portable CT scanner. You'll be impressed!
September 30th, 2011
Charles Darwin was a prolific writer and Benjamin D. Walsh, Illinois' first entomologist, was one of his American correspondents. Check out Darwin's writings!
September 19th, 2011
Travel back to the 1920’s to discover the significance of The Field Museum’s joint archaeological expedition to the ancient city of Kish.
September 02nd, 2011
Learn what Chicago was like 420 million years ago.
March 11th, 2011
Javanese masks are worn by actors in traditional dance dramas known as wayang topeng. Such performances are held at night and last for at least several hours.
March 02nd, 2011
While the acquisition of new collections for the Museum still involves obtaining actual objects, our collecting also involves much more than just this.
March 02nd, 2011
In 1958 The Field Museum purchased one of the most extensive and valuable collections of Pacific artifacts ever assembled; Captain A.W.F. Fuller’s collection of 6,884 objects of material culture.
March 02nd, 2011
A.B. Lewis left Chicago on May 8, 1909, with Fiji as his first destination and with the primary objective, as instructed by Dorsey, to assemble a display worthy museum collection from the southwestern Pacific.
March 02nd, 2011
The Museum’s initial holdings from the Pacific islands included notable collections that were received from the K.K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum in Vienna, Austria, J. G. Peace from Melanesia, Carl Hagenbeck, and Otto Finsch and exhibited at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. In 1908 George Dorsey made the Museum’s first trip to the Pacific when he undertook a whirlwind collecting trip around the world that stopped in New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, and Australia.