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At the Field, there’s an encounter around every corner.

A visitor takes in an intricately detailed garment in the Africa Fashion exhibition. In the background, another visitor looks at two ensembles with bold prints and colors displayed on mannequins.

Collections

Acres of storerooms, filled to the brim with carefully preserved items from across time and space. More than forty million items: each one representing a species, a tradition, a story, a life. Endless opportunities to discover.

Famous items in our exhibitions

View of the circular interior of the Pawnee Earth Lodge, with various replica objects displayed around the circular hearth in the center and on the walls.

Pawnee Earth Lodge

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

Meet the Chicago Archaeopteryx

Evolving Planet

A three-quarter view of the front of the Maori Meeting HouseCarvings decorate the house’s walls and beams. At the apex of the gabled roof are two carved faces. One is Ruatepupuke, for whom this house is named.

Maori Meeting House Ruatepupuke II

A spinosaurus fossil cast suspended from the ceiling of a large hall with skylights

Sobek the Spinosaurus

Hall 1 | Stanley Field Hall

Explore Our Collections

Virtual Tours

Can’t make it to the Museum in person? Explore select exhibitions virtually — including some of our favorites from the archives.

Permanent Halls and Galleries

Pair of stone lions

Cyrus Tang Hall of China

SUE stands proudly in their suite located in the Field Museum’s Evolving Planet exhibition. An animated forest is visible in the background.

Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet & SUE the T. rex

View of the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice DNA Discovery Center, prominently showing a large model of a DNA double helix and an interactive touchscreen table. Windows in the background look into the Pritzker Laboratory for Evolutionary Biology and Molecular Sy

DNA Discovery Center

A group of visitors watch a young performer dance in the Native Truths exhibition

Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories

Topics

Media for Focus: Fossil Invertebrates

Fossil Invertebrates

Media for Birds

Birds

Image for Focus: Meteorites

Meteorites

Image for South American Anthropology

South American Anthropology

Articles and videos

Two images, one of a man with braids in a chef's coat plating several identical dishes; and several cobs of corn of different colors laid out flat. Sean Sherman by Rina Oh for the James Beard Foundation. Corn cobs from Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, in the Museum's collection.

The Sioux Chef: Reinvigorating Indigenous Food Systems

North entrance to the Field Museum

New Specimens Of A 240-Million-Year-Old Chinese "Dragon"

North entrance to the Field Museum

The Great Archaeological Discovery Of Our Time

North entrance to the Field Museum

The Evolution Of The Multi-Tool