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<p>Field Museum exclusive archive pictures on the trail of fossil preparation labs.</p>

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Media for Preparation Lab History

A public viewing lab setup in the Stanley Field Hall with visitors looking over fossil preparators at work.

Science and Collections History

Preparation Lab History

Field Museum scientist Matt von Konrat examining dried moss collected in 2013 in a botanical survey as part of a  homicide investigation. Photo courtesy of Field Museum.

Solving mysteries with moss

Thorsten Lumbsch Vice President, Science and Education; Curator, Lichenized Fungi Science and Education

Field Museum’s VP of Science joins prestigious Royal Academy of Sciences academic staff, lauded for transformative work on lichens

Entrance to the Africa Hall  permenant exhibition

Renovations to the Field Museum’s Africa Hall, opening in 2028, will celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of African cultures, while highlighting complex innovations and new research on the world’s longest record of the human story

Pokémon Fossil Museum

Wild Color

Death: Life's Greatest Mystery

Death: Life's Mystery

SUE: The T. rex Experience

A Celebration of Souls

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American Ornithologists' Union/Cooper Ornithological Society 2013

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Critical Transitions Workshop 2015

Dwarf Spider ID Gallery

GIS in Science and Education

Goose Barnacles

Milli-PEET: The class Diplopoda

Museum Loan Network

Kearney Lab

Assembling the Tree of Life: Deep Scaly

Manu

Malacologia

PEET - BIVALVES: Taxonomy on the half-shell

Pleistocene Sea Level Maps

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The Körös Regional Archaeological Project

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