Purchase a meal voucher ahead of time for a discounted rate of $20. Meal vouchers include your choice of a main dish and side dish along with a dessert. Menu will be released closer to the event date.

Thank you for your interest in the Field Ambassadors Program. Please see our main Field Ambassadors page for application information.

Pre-Registered Illinois field trips are FREE everyday of the week! Free Wednesdays are the perfect opportunity for you to explore our general admission exhibitions with your family or a group of ...

Qualified researchers can submit loan requests for meteorites from our collection The scientific staff at the Field Museum reviews all loan requests and decides on the basis of sample availability and ...

Museum open Daily 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, last entry 4:00 pm Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day Museum is located at: ...

Our scientific staff is engaged in many special projects and conferences related to their areas of research. Explore the sampling at right to find deep scientific information about topics ranging from ...

The mission of the Field Museum of Natural History is to collect, study and document biological and cultural specimens, and to tell the world about these specimens and the studies based on them. The ...

Join Eric in Evolving Planet and learn how to use a poem to speculate about our early hominid relatives.

Interested in joining the Field Museum Women in Science group? Everyone is welcome and membership is free! Please fill out the following form with your name and email address to be added to the list.

The Field Museum houses one of the world’s foremost scientific collections of biological diversity (>25 million specimens), and supports active biodiversity research around the globe. Despite the ...

The Fossil Vertebrate Collection began with specimens acquired by the Museum through the purchase of the Wards Natural Science Establishment exhibit at the Columbian Exposition of the 1894 World’s ...

The D’Orbigny meteorite was found in July of 1979 when a farmer near Buenos Aires, Argentina hit the meteorite with his plow. The meteorite had a total mass of 16.55 kg and was nearly completely ...