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The Field Museum also offers a wide variety of educational programs for visitors of all ages, as well as special events and lectures. Today this world-class institution is one of the most popular ...

A new discovery at the Field Museum came as a pleasant surprise to many on the staff. The discovery is the man behind so many of the beautiful work and displays at the Field Museum, Carl Cotton. "Carl ...

Students who protested what they saw during a field trip to Chicago’s History Museum sparked a new exhibit that will open this month after years in the making. “Aquí En Chicago,” which opens to the ...

When people think of prehistoric life, they tend to jump to two behemoth bookends — the towering dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and then the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions ...

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Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History is preparing for a new, sizeable addition to its collection. After nearly 20 years of being the main attraction of the museum, Sue the Tyrannosaurus Rex will ...

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Three stories above the Field Museum’s exhibits, rows and rows of taxidermied chipmunks filled a tray in the museum’s mammal archives. Pointing to two of the oldest critters, mammalogist Stephanie ...

A world-renowned museum curator gets bitten by a snake he's trying to identify. He does not seek medical treatment. He goes home and documents his symptoms hour by hour in a journal, including all the ...

A popular Chicago museum that shuttered in 2023 after more than 40 years is officially reopening in a new way with two major exhibits that date back decades. The Chicago Museum of Broadcast ...