Field Museum of Natural History

The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), often known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum located in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the world's largest. Because of the scale and quality of its educational and scientific activities, as well as its substantial scientific specimen and artifact collections, the museum is a popular natural-history museum. The permanent installations, which get up to two million visitors every year, feature fossils, contemporary cultures from throughout the world, and interactive programming showing today's critical conservation concerns. The museum is named after its first significant donor, department store mogul Marshall Field. The museum and its collections were inspired by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the exhibits on show.

The museum maintains a temporary exhibition program that includes touring presentations as well as topical exhibitions created in-house. The professional team cares for nearly 24 million specimens and artefacts, which serve as the foundation for the museum's scientific-research initiatives. These collections contain the whole spectrum of extant biodiversity, diamonds, meteorites, fossils, and extensive anthropological and cultural artifact collections from throughout the world.

Location: 1400 S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605

Website: fieldmuseum.org