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.

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

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 ...

The titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum is a big deal—literally, the biggest dinosaur that scientists have discovered to date. This long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur lived over 100 million years ago in ...

Hear from Native American and Indigenous people as they tell their own stories—through words, music, dance, and art. Understand the historical significance of items in the Field’s collection, like ...

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, ...