We know monarch butterflies for their striking orange and black wings and impressive migratory journey from Canada to Mexico. They also play an important role as pollinators in ecosystems. But monarch ...

Come face-to-face with one of the world’s most famous predators and experience the life of SUE the T. rex as never before. Featuring a new, fully articulated SUE cast with added gastralia (“belly ribs ...

Join a committed group of lifelong learners working to ensure a strong future for the Field Museum. The Women’s Board is a group of nearly 200 civic-minded members that raise more than $2 million ...

The Field Museum is in the heart of Chicago’s Museum Campus, at 1400 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive.

The Field Museum aims to inspire Chicagoland area teens and pre-teens to explore and protect the natural world. Our youth programs connect them to natural history and world cultures while helping them ...

About 3,800 species of spiders are known to exist in North America. These species fall into 68 different families, but some of the families contain many more species than others. The Sheetweb Weavers ...

“Roots and Routes” is a collaborative project aimed at creating and sustaining the longest stretch of lakefront natural area within the Chicago Park District system, the Burnham Wildlife Corridor (BWC ...

Carl Akeley, widely considered “the Father of Modern Taxidermy,” was not only a taxidermist, but also a naturalist, sculptor, writer and inventor. Over his long career he worked for several different ...

Herman Strecker was a sculptor who lived in Pennsylvania from 1836 to 1901. Starting as a teenager, he collected and studied butterflies and moths, corresponding and exchanging specimens with other ...

Although treatment of an object may sometimes be necessary, treatment alone is not sufficient to preserve collections for future. Objects inevitably deteriorate, but our objective as preservers of ...

Bring the Field Museum’s learning resources to your school or home to support learners engaging with science, nature, and world cultures. The lesson plans and activities draw from our collections, ...

Anchor: #come-face-to-face-with-the-largest-dinosaur-that-ever-lived Come face-to-face with the largest dinosaur that ever lived. The titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum is a big deal—literally, the ...