Explore the World at the Field - Field Museum

Visitors milling around a museum exhibition, showing a large video screen and other multi-media

Two adult visitors interact with a museum display screen. Models of different fish are mounted around them in a spiral.

Meet the Chicago ArchaeopteryxMeet the Chicago Archaeopteryx

Museum open daily, 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm.

Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.

Museum is located at:

1400 S. Dusable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605

Museum open daily, 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm.

Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.

Museum is located at:

1400 S. Dusable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605

The Field Museum connects all of us to the natural world and the human story.

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Families and Groups

Doze with our DinosChoose Your Date

Carl Akeley’s winter scene from the iconic diorama, Four Seasons of the White-tailed Deer

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Caihong juji. Illustration: Velizar Simeonovski

This Rainbow Dinosaur Had Iridescent Feathers

A museum display case with a cut-away of several inches of soil, showing the tunnels dug by emerging cicadas

What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Cicada Double Emergence

In a 1922 Charles Knight mural, a group of Protoceratops gather on a sandy hill, one watching over a clutch of eggs, while two stand nearby. Another in the background eats leaves from a small tree.

Paleoart: Painting the Land Before Time

Kids in the PlayLab make music (or joyful noise) with instruments from around the world.

Crown Family PlayLab

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