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 The Field Museum has more than 150 scientists who are conducting groundbreaking research, from exploring the cradles of civilization to discovering the oldest dinosaur fossils ever found to identifying new plant and animal species. The Museum is also home to nearly 22 million treasures from nature and human culture—one of the world’s finest scientific collections and an irreplaceable resource for studying life on our planet. This strong scientific foundation informs all of the Museum’s exhibitions and educational programs.
The Museum's curatorial and scientific staff focus in the fields of Anthropology, Botany, Geology , and Zoology. Since its founding in 1893, the Field Museum has been an international leader in evolutionary biology and paleontology, and archaeology and ethnography.
Learn more about research projects Field Museum geologists conduct in the fields of paleontology and meteoritics.
Visit the Pritzker Lab Web site to learn how Field Museum scientists study the diversity of life on Earth through genetic analysis.
Expeditions @ Field Museum ™
Explore the world with Field Museum scientists through expeditions@fieldmuseum. What is it like to be excavating a house and suddenly uncover an unexpected tomb beneath the floor? What is it like to be working in an underwater world so remote that sunlight cannot reach it? What is it like to look across a mountain ridge brimming with plants previously unknown to science? And what is it like, after traveling so far and working so hard, to find nothing at all? Find out with expeditions@fieldmuseum. Through email dispatches, video reports, interactive site maps, and expedition photo galleries, Field Museum scientists share their explorations of the world around us.
Visit expeditions@field museum and sign up for this free interactive program.
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