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The Field Museum connects all of us to the natural world and the human story.

Museum open daily, 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm.

Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.

Museum is located at: 1400 S. Dusable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605

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For general inquiries: 312.922.9410 or 312.665.7669 (TTY).

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Our scientific staff is engaged in many special projects and conferences related to their areas of research. Explore the sampling at right to find deep scientific information about topics ranging from peregrine falcons and millipedes to geographic mapping and Neolithic Greek caves.

Zoology Projects

  • Illinois Peregrines

  • Dwarf Spider ID Gallery

  • Rise of Modern Biological Diversity in the Phanerozoic

  • Goose Barnacles

  • PEET - BIVALVES: Taxonomy on the half-shell

  • Milli-PEET: The class Diplopoda

  • Southern Amazonian birds and their symbionts

  • American Ornithologists' Union/Cooper Ornithological Society 2013

Anthropology Projects

  • The Diros Project

  • The Körös Regional Archaeological Project

  • The 46th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory

  • Archaeological and Anthropological Grant Opportunities in Bulgaria

General Science

  • Museum Loan Network

  • Collections Preparation and Information Resource

  • GIS in Science and Education

  • Rise of Modern Biological Diversity in the Phanerozoic

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Museum open daily, 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm.

Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.

Museum is located at: 1400 S. Dusable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605

Contact Us
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