Field Museum of Natural History

The Field Museum in Chicago showcases extensive collections in paleontology, anthropology, botany, geology, and zoology, offering educational programs and exhibitions for all ages.

Planning your visit

The Field Museum is one of the great natural history collections, holding around 40 million specimens, and its most famous resident is Sue — the largest, most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever found, 90 percent intact, now mounted in her own gallery with the real skull displayed separately because it is too heavy for the skeleton to bear.

Alongside sit Máximo, a cast of the enormous titanosaur Patagotitan filling the main hall, extensive Egyptian holdings including a reconstructed mastaba tomb visitors walk through, Native American and Pacific ethnographic collections, and the Hall of Gems.

The building is a 1921 neoclassical pile on the lakefront, part of the Museum Campus alongside the Shedd Aquarium and Adler Planetarium — a cluster that makes a full day easy and a combined pass sensible.

The museum is large enough that unstructured wandering wastes time; the dinosaur and Egyptian halls are what most first visits should prioritise.

Bookable options include admission tickets, tickets with digital tours, and guided formats. Special exhibitions carry separate charges. Current availability is shown below.