Field Museum

Chicago’s Field Museum is already home to SUE the T. rex and Máximo the Titanosaur, but an even-larger prehistoric specimen is also in need of a new moniker, and museum patrons are being asked to help.

Crowds of people lined up Monday morning to get into the Shedd Aquarium, which reopened July 3 after closing Saturday and Sunday for NASCAR’s Chicago Street Race.

How long will it take to reopen streets after the NASCAR Chicago Street Race? Some improvements are already being made, but Sandra Torres has the latest schedule.

Already home to the world’s best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex, a new dinosaur exhibit has arrived at Field Museum just in time for the start of summer.

Already home to the world’s best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex, a new dinosaur exhibit has arrived at Field Museum just in time for the start of summer.

The Field Museum is previewing an exhibit that explores Native Hawaiian migration to Chicago, NBC Chicago’s LeeAnn Trotter reports.

One month after officials announced more than two dozen planned street closures leading up to, during and after the upcoming Chicago NASCAR 2023 Street Race, officials with several Chicago museums have released more information about how the event will impact their operations.

Workers at Chicago’s Field Museum have voted to unionize with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

The Field Museum installs a Bronze Age era sword (1080-900 BC) in the museum’s main hall as a preview for an upcoming special exhibition, First Kings of Europe.

The Field Museum was so popular on its free-admission day Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that tickets officially “sold out” for the day.

With kids still on break and temperatures low, many Chicago-area residents are looking for indoor activities to keep them occupied. Luckily, museums throughout the city are offering free admission on certain days in January 2023.

Did you know that dinosaurs are alive today? They’re just called birds. 

Field Museum Paleontologist Jingmai O’Connor recently published “When Dinosaurs Conquered the Skies,” a children’s book about the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter reports.

Field Museum’s “Dozin’ with the Dinos” is a program for kids where they can stay up late with museum scientists and enjoy scientific activities.

With the weather cooling down, many Chicago-area residents are looking for a way to soak in a day of incredible sights all while indoors.

A new exhibit at the Field Museum centering around death in history, culture and nature is opening this weekend, NBC 5’s Kye Martin reports.

In a dark corner of the Field Museum’s basement, staff carefully lowered one of the largest hunks of dinosaur bones they have ever uncovered and tried to move in one piece.

A look at upcoming free days this fall at Chicago museums.

During the Field Museum’s Parasite Palooza, you can meet scientists and get an up-close-and-personal look at parasites you cannot see with the naked eye. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter reports.

On Juneteenth, a federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, the Field Museum offered free admission so people could attend a discussion about slavery and the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter reports.