This summer in Chicago, the Field Museum is turning up the heat - and the chills - with its new exhibit, featuring a rare specimen not seen anywhere else in U.S. The "Reptiles Alive" exhibit opens ...
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The movement du jour is for a museum to describe its offerings as “immersive.” It’s become a cliché, but it does nod to a cultural trend that predated, then was amplified by, the pandemic: Experiences ...
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 ...
CHICAGO -- 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 ...
The Field Museum is one of Chicago’s most iconic attractions. With millions of specimens of the world’s wonders in its collections, from gems to mummies to dinosaurs, the museum is a destination for ...
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 ...