Collections

The Field Museum's Gantz Family Collections Center works to improve the accessibility, reach, and impact of Field Museum collections, driving important scientific research in labs around the world — and helping people explore the past, understand the present, and secure biological and cultural diversity for future generations.

When an item enters our collections, it is cared for in perpetuity: from careful, climate-adjusted storage and cleaning to high-tech diagnostic and repair efforts when time takes its inevitable toll. Field Museum conservators are experts at preserving these examples of the cultural, biological, and geological diversity of our planet so they continue to inform and inspire people for generations to come.