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The Field Museum of Natural History (or Field Museum) is in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.. It is on Lake Shore Drive next to Lake Michigan. The museum has more than 21 million exhibits.
The museum was founded in 1893 and had used old exhibitions that were shown from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, including exhibits about trains.
The Field Museum has a large collection of dinosaur skeletons in the Evolving Planet exhibit. The human cultural anthropology exhibits have things from ancient Egypt, the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Islands, and Tibet. The taxidermy collection has many large animals, including two African elephants and the Lions of Tsavo featured in the 1996 movie The Ghost and the Darkness.
The Ancient Americas exhibit has Native American artifacts. The museum also has Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton currently known in the world.
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Stanley Field, Field Museum President, 1906
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North Hall, circa 1895
Main Hall
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Triceratops skeleton and skull
Sue, the largest and most complete (90%) Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton currently known.
Night view of the exterior of the museum.
Field Museum – Aerial View
North Entrance
Recreated Elephant Diorama
Sue
McDonald's Fossil Prep Lab
Animated display of ocean life during the Cambrian Period
Lifesize display of a forest from the Carboniferous Period
Recreation of Papeete street in Traveling the Pacific
Northern façade of The Field Museum
Parasaurolophus skeleton
Stegosaurus skeleton
Daspletosaurus skeleton
Skull of Parasaurolophus
Skull of Masiakasaurus
Skeleton of Buitreraptor
Skeleton of Rapetosaurus
Skull of Rapetosaurus
Skeleton of Castoroides
Skull of Daspletosaurus
The Tsavo Maneaters on display
Deinonychus skeleton
Front view of Daspletosaurus
Skeleton of Brachiosaurus
Skeleton of Daspletosaurus
Skeleton of Menodus
Oxydactylus skeleton
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Skull of Eobasileus
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A shark tooth weapon from the Gilbert Islands.
