Two people stand in the Restoring Earth exhibition, looking at a peregrine falcon specimen.

Abbott Hall of Conservation: Restoring Earth

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Three children explore near the entrance to the Africa exhibition. In the foreground is a sign with a drawing of the bust of a man wearing glasses and a suit and tie with the words “Leopold Sedar Senghor” written underneath.

Africa

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Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches 

A view of Portage Lake in the Calumet region. A set of wooden stairs lead down from the sand dunes onto the lakeshore. Three individuals can be seen standing near the water. The Chicago skyline is visible in the distance.

First-of-its-kind exhibition series highlights Calumet’s natural and cultural treasures

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Calumet Voices, National Stories

On the city's lakefront to perform a chant to greet the sunrise, Chicago-based Hula practitioners gather around an `ipu heke, a traditional Hawaiian percussion implement made of two gourds.

Chicago’s Legacy Hula

Inside a recreated pueblo in the Crown Family PlayLab, a child and an adult play with baskets holding fake corn. Two girls stand in the doorway nearby.

Crown Family PlayLab

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The first gallery of the Cyrus Tang Hall of China, with a map table in the foreground and a large circle of video screens above the exhibition display cases.

Cyrus Tang Hall of China

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Dinosaurs of Antarctica 3D

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

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View of the inside of the Malott Hall of Jades. A prominent sign with the Chinese character for “jade” is visible in the foreground.

Elizabeth Hubert Malott Hall of Jades

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First Kings of Europe

View of the Grainger Hall of Gems from the entrance, with many display cases visible. A stained glass window featuring a mermaid is visible in the center.

Grainger Hall of Gems

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Grainger Science Hub

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

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Three columns of hieroglyphs carved into the faded stone wall of a mastaba.

Inside Ancient Egypt

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Two visitors sit together on a bench, looking at life-size sculptures of people by Malvina Hoffman. In the foreground several bronze busts are displayed in a glass case.

Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman

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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

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Two young visitors reach down to touch the foot of Máximo, a cast of the largest dinosaur ever discovered. The foot is raised on a black platform and the two visitors learn forward to touch the front of the foot.

Máximo the Titanosaur

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A visitor looks into the McDonald's Fossil Lab. Inside are three preparators, scientific equipment, wooden trays, and a prominent exhaust system with tubes that extend down from the ceiling.

McDonald’s Fossil Preparation Lab

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Meteorites

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Image for Meteorites

The Field Museum’s new permanent exhibition Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories.

Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories

Students gather around a window to peer into a diorama featuring three bears in their natural habitat.

Field Trip Experiences

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Nature Walk & Messages from the Wilderness

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

Two visitors stand in between glasses cases in Plants of the World. They are standing to their side, looking straight forward at plant models. A replica tobacco plant is displayed in its own case at the front of the hallway.

Plants of the World

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Regenstein Halls of the Pacific

Black-eyed Susans in the foreground with the North side of the Field Museum in the background.

Rice Native Gardens

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Two women sit on a bench in a circular space, surrounded by glass cases filled with pottery in a gallery in Robert R. McCormick Halls of the Ancient Americas.

Robert R. McCormick Halls of the Ancient Americas

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A kid stands in the middle of a gallery, looking at an interactive screen outside a display case full of large flightless birds. There are four other display cases with taxidermied birds in the room. In the right foreground, another visitor can be seen through the glass of a display, looking at the specimens inside.

Ronald and Christina Gidwitz Hall of Birds

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A large fish model in a display case in the Searle Family Lounge. The balcony is framed with neoclassical arches and visitors stop to look at a digital rail.

Searle Family Lounge

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Sobek the Spinosaurus

The Changing Face of Science

In a digital interactive, adjust a cheetah’s speed to see how its spine springs into action when it runs.

The Machine Inside: Biomechanics

Visitors wearing 3D glasses, looking towards a movie screen that is not visible in the frame.

Mysteries of China 3D

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Titanosaur 3D: The Story of Máximo

Two boys stand in front of a reproduction of a crayfish more than twice their size. The boy to the left crouches, looking down into a window cut in floor. Recreated soil and roots are visible behind them.

Underground Adventure

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Waking the T. rex 3D: The Story of SUE

A woman holds up a little boy as they look into a taxidermy case filled with snakes, squirrels, and another small mammal.

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