Field Museum of Natural History

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In 1869, and before its formal establishment, the museum acquired the largest collection of birds and bird descriptions, from artist and ornithologist Daniel Giraud Elliot. In 1894, Elliot would become the curator of the Department of Zoology at the museum, where he worked until 1906.{{cite web |title=American Museum of Natural History Research Library: Elliot, Daniel Giraud 1835-1915 (amnhp_1000637) |website=data.library.amnh.org |date=February 22, 1999 |url=https://data.library.amnh.org/archives-authorities/id/amnhp_1000637#relations |access-date=December 27, 2023}}{{cite journal| journal=The Auk |title=Daniel Giraud Elliot (January, 1917) |via=sora.unm.edu |url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v034n01/p0001-p0010.pdf |access-date=December 27, 2023}}

To house the exhibits and collections assembled for the World's Columbian Exposition for future generations, Edward Ayer convinced the merchant Marshall Field to fund the establishment of a museum.{{cite web |title=Field Museum |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Field-Museum |website=Britannica |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=7 March 2023}}{{cite web |title=About the Field Museum |url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about |website=fieldmuseum.org |publisher=Field Museum |access-date=7 March 2023}}{{cite book |last=Lockwood |first=F. C. |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.179436 |title=The life of Edward E. Ayer |publisher=A. C. McClurg |year=1929 |location=Chicago, Illinois |language=en-us}} Originally titled the Columbian Museum of Chicago in honor of its origins, the Field Museum was incorporated by the State of Illinois on September 16, 1893, for the purpose of the "accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of artifacts illustrating art, archaeology, science and history".{{cite journal |last=Farrington |first=O. C. |year=1930 |title=A Brief History of Field Museum from 1893 to 1930 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4376562 |journal=Field Museum News |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1, 3}} The Columbian Museum of Chicago occupied the only building remaining from the World's Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park, the Palace of Fine Arts. It is now home to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.{{cite book |last=Alexander |first=E. P. |title=Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums |publisher=American Association for State and Local History |year=1979 |location=Nashville, Tennessee |language=en-us}}

In 1905, the museum's name was changed to Field Museum of Natural History to honor its first major benefactor and to reflect its focus on the natural sciences.{{cite report |publisher=Field Museum of Natural History |title=Annual Report of the Director to the Board of Trustees for the Year 1906 |url=https://archive.org/details/annualreporto19061910fiel/page/99/mode/1up?view=theater |year=1907 |series=Report Series |volume=3 |page=99 |access-date=2024-01-09 |via=Internet Archive}}

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Stanley Field was the president in 1906.{{cite report |title=Annual report of the Director to the Board of Trustees for the year 1906 |publisher=Field Museum of Natural History |url=https://archive.org/details/annualreporto19061910fiel/page/n437/mode/1up?view=theater |year=1907 |series=Report Series |volume=3 |at=Plate XLIV |access-date=2024-01-09 |via=Internet Archive}}

During the period from 1943 to 1966,{{cite book |last=Field|first=S.|title=Address of Mr. Stanley Field, president of the Museum |year=1943 |publisher=Field Museum Press |location=Chicago |pages=3–5}}{{cite journal |last=Field |first=S. |title=Fifty years of progress |journal=Field Museum News |year=1943 |volume=14 |issue=9/10 |pages=3–10}}{{cite journal |last=Webber |first=E. L. |year=1966 |title=Field Museum Again: name change honors Field Family |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4188067#page/2/mode/1up |journal=Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=2–3}} the museum was known as the Chicago Natural History Museum. In 1921, the Museum moved from its original location in Jackson Park to its present site on Chicago Park District property near downtown Chicago.{{cite web|title=Field Museum Changes Locations|date=20 May 2009|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/field_museum_library/sets/72157614806438040/}} By the late 1930s the Field Museum had emerged as one of the three premier museums in the United States, the other two being the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.{{cite book |last=Coleman |first=L. V. |title=The Museums in America: A critical study |publisher=The American Association of Museums |year=1939 |volume=1–3}}

The museum has maintained its reputation through continuous growth, expanding the scope of collections and its scientific research output, in addition to its award-winning exhibitions, outreach publications, and programs.{{cite journal |last=Nitecki |first=M. |year=1980 |title=Field Museum of Natural History |journal=ASC Newsletter |volume=8 |issue=5 |pages=61–70}}{{cite book |last=Ward |first=L. |title=An explorer's guide to the Field Museum |publisher=The Field Museum |year=1998 |location=Chicago, Illinois |language=en-us}} The Field Museum is part of Chicago's lakefront Museum Campus that includes the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium.

In 2015, it was reported that an employee had defrauded the museum of $900,000 over a seven-year period to 2014.{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Steve |date=11 December 2015 |title=Former Field Museum employee accused of stealing $900,000 over 7 years |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-field-museum-employee-theft-20151211-story.html}}

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The Museum received 1,018,002 visitors in 2022, ranking it 21st in the List of most-visited museums in the United States.TEA-AECOM Museum Index, published June 14, 2023.

Animal exhibitions and dioramas such as Nature Walk, Mammals of Asia, and Mammals of Africa allow visitors an up-close look at the diverse habitats that animals inhabit. Most notably featured are the man-eating lions of Tsavo.{{Cite news|url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/tsavo-lions|title=The Tsavo Lions|date=2014-06-23|work=The Field Museum|access-date=2018-03-31|language=en|archive-date=November 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114221704/https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/tsavo-lions|url-status=dead}} The Mfuwe man eating lion is also on display.

Evolving Planet follows the evolution of life on Earth over 4 billion years. The exhibit showcases fossils of single-celled organisms, Permian synapsids, dinosaurs, extinct mammals, and early hominids.{{Cite news|url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/evolving-planet|title=Evolving Planet|last=jhoog|date=2010-11-11|work=The Field Museum|access-date=2018-03-31|language=en|archive-date=February 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221115757/https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/evolving-planet|url-status=dead}} The Field Museum's non-mammalian synapsid collection consists of over 1100 catalogued specimens, including 46 holotypes. The collection of basal synapsids includes 29 holotypes of caseid, ophiacodontid, edaphosaurid, varanopid, and sphenacodontid species – approximately 88% of catalogued specimens.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/fossil-non-mammalian-synapsid-collection-field-museum|title=The Fossil Non-mammalian Synapsid Collection at The Field Museum|last=kangielczyk|date=2011-03-16|website=Field Museum|language=en|access-date=2019-02-20}}

Inside Ancient Egypt offers a glimpse into what life was like for ancient Egyptians. Twenty-three human mummies are on display as well as many mummified animals. The exhibit features a three-story replica (featuring two authentic rooms with 5,000-year-old hieroglyphs) of the mastaba tomb of Unas-Ankh, the son of Unas (the last pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty). Also displayed are an ancient marketplace showing artifacts of everyday life, a shrine to the cat goddess Bastet, and dioramas showing the afterlife preparation process for the dead.{{Cite news|url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/inside-ancient-egypt|title=Inside Ancient Egypt|last=jhoog|date=2010-11-11|work=The Field Museum|access-date=2018-03-31|language=en|archive-date=April 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401004531/https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/inside-ancient-egypt|url-status=dead}}

In 2024 the museum performed CT scans on 26 of their mummies.{{cite news |last=Wojciechowski |first=Charlie |date= |title=New research at Field Museum peels back layers of the past for Egyptian remains |url=https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/new-research-at-field-museum-peels-back-layers-of-the-past-for-egyptian-remains/3587019/ |work=NBC Chicago |access-date=30 October 2024}}

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The Ancient Americas displays 13,000 years of human ingenuity and achievement in the Western Hemisphere, where hundreds of diverse societies thrived long before the arrival of Europeans. In this large permanent exhibition visitors can learn the epic story of the peopling of these continents, from the Arctic to the tip of South America.{{Cite news |last=jhoog |date=2011-01-11 |title=The Ancient Americas |language=en |work=The Field Museum |url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/ancient-americas |access-date=2018-03-31 |archive-date=April 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401004036/https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/ancient-americas |url-status=dead }} The exhibit consists of six displays: Ice Age Hunters, Innovative Hunters and Gatherers, Farming Villagers, Powerful Leaders, Rulers and Citizens, and Empire Builders. Visitors are encouraged to begin with Ice Age Hunters and conclude with Empire Builders.{{Cite journal |last=Hosmer |first=Brian |date=2008 |title=The Ancient Americas |journal=The Public Historian |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=142–145 |doi=10.1525/tph.2008.30.1.142 |jstor=10.1525/tph.2008.30.1.142}} In this way, visitors can understand the cultural and economic progression of the Ancient Americas. Throughout the exhibit, collections are displayed in a way that emphasizes the cultural context of the artifacts.

The six displays draw from the Field Museum's massive North America collection. Significant collections utilized by the exhibit include pre-Columbian artifacts gathered by Mayanists Edward H. Thompson and John E. S. Thompson.{{Cite journal |last=McVicker |first=Donald |date=2003 |title=A Tale of Two Thompsons: The Contributions of Edward H. Thompson and J. Eric S. Thompson to Anthropology at the Field Museum |journal=Fieldiana |issue=36 |pages=139–152 |jstor=29782676}} Additionally, former curator Paul Sidney Martin's American Southwest collection makes up a significant portion of the "Farming Villagers" display.{{Cite journal |last=Nash |first=Stephen |date=2003 |title=Paul Sidney Martin |journal=Fieldiana |issue=36 |pages=165–177}} The Empire Builders display includes Aztec and Incan artifacts gathered in the 19th century.{{Cite journal |last1=Haskin |first1=Warren |last2=Nash |first2=Steven |last3=Coleman |first3=Sarah |date=2003 |title=A Chronicle of Field Museum Anthropology |journal=Fieldiana |issue=36 |pages=65–81 |jstor=29782670}}

The Ancient Americas exhibit transitions to the Alsdorf Hall of Northwest Coast and Arctic Peoples and eventually the Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories exhibit. This emphasizes the thematic unity of the Field Museum's American collections.{{Cite journal |last=Swyers |first=Holly |date=2016 |title=Rediscovering Papa Franz: Teaching Anthropology and Modern Life |url=https://i-share-sie.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_SIE/1fjplmc/cdi_proquest_journals_1846833387 |journal=HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=213–231 |doi=10.14318/hau6.2.015 |s2cid=151465357 |via=Univ. of Chicago Press Open Access|url-access=subscription }}

Cultural exhibitions include sections on Tibet and China, where visitors can view traditional clothing.{{Cite web |title=Cyrus Tang Hall of China Exhibition Online |url=http://chinahall.fieldmuseum.org/highlights |access-date=2018-03-31 |website=chinahall.fieldmuseum.org}} There is also an exhibit on life in Africa, where visitors can learn about the many different cultures on the continent,{{Cite news |date=2011-08-24 |title=Africa |language=en |work=The Field Museum |url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/africa |access-date=2018-03-31 |archive-date=April 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401004905/https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/africa |url-status=dead }} and an exhibit where visitors may "visit" several Pacific Islands.{{Cite news |last=swigodner |date=2017-05-31 |title=Regenstein Halls of the Pacific |language=en |work=The Field Museum |url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/regenstein-halls-pacific |access-date=2018-03-31 |archive-date=April 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401004748/https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/regenstein-halls-pacific |url-status=dead }} The museum houses an authentic 19th-century Māori Meeting House, Ruatepupuke II,{{cite web |title=A Marae Abroad |url=http://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/Pdf.aspx?type=feature&id=2429&name=Nga%20Maunga%20Korero%20page%20002.pdf |work=Gisbourne Herald |access-date=October 26, 2011 |archive-date=April 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401125703/http://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/Pdf.aspx?type=feature&id=2429&name=Nga%20Maunga%20Korero%20page%20002.pdf |url-status=dead }} from Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand. Additionally, the Field Museum's Northwest Coast Collections showcase the early work of Franz Boas and Frederic Ward Putnam's work with the Kwakwakaʼwakw (Kwakiutl) people in the Alsdorf Hall of Northwest Coast and Arctic Peoples.{{cite journal |last1=Lupton |first1=Carter |last2=Rathburn |first2=Robert |date=1984 |title=Maritime Peoples of the Arctic and Northwest Coast. A Permanent Exhibit at the Field Museum of Natural History |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=86 |issue=1 |pages=229–230 |doi=10.1525/aa.1984.86.1.02a00790}} Finally, the Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories permanent exhibition displays the Field Museum's current collaborative efforts with the indigenous people of North America.{{cite journal |last1=Kuta |first1=Sarah |date=May 26, 2022 |title=Field Museum Confronts Its Outdated, Insensitive Native American Exhibition |journal=Smithsonian Magazine}}

The Africa cultural hall opened at the Field Museum in November 1993. It offers 14 different displays that are primarily ethnographic in nature. Several African countries are exhibited as well as a variety of geographical areas including the Sahara and East African rift valley. The final section is dedicated to the African diaspora with a particular focus on the impact of the slave trade on the continent.{{cite journal |last1=Demissie |first1=Fassil |last2=Apter |first2=Andrew |date=1995 |title=An Enchanting Darkness: A New Representation of Africa |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=97 |issue=3 |pages=559–566 |doi=10.1525/aa.1995.97.3.02a00140 |jstor=683275}} The Africa permanent exhibit owes most of its collection to the efforts of Wilfred D. Hambly.{{cite journal |last1=Codrington |first1=Raymond |date=2003 |title=Wilfrid D. Hambly and Sub-Saharan Africa Research at the Field Museum, 1928–1953 |journal=Fieldiana |volume=36 |issue=36 |pages=153–163 |jstor=29782677}}

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This extensive permanent exhibition covers two culture areas that were vitally important to the early work of the Field Museum—the Arctic and Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest collection is more extensive, but both collections are organized into four categories: subsistence, village and society, the spiritual world, and art. Major displays include a variety of dioramas and a large collection of totem poles. The current permanent exhibition has its origins in the Maritime Peoples hall created by the Field Museum's curator of North American archaeology and ethnology James VanStone.{{Cite journal |last1=Rooney |first1=Jessica |last2=Kusimba |first2=Chapurukha |date=2003 |title=The Legacy of James W. VanStone in Museum and Arctic Anthropology |journal=Fieldiana |issue=36 |pages=221–234 |jstor=29782682}}

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The Cyrus Tang Hall of China opened as a permanent exhibition in 2015. The hall consists of five sections: Diverse Landscapes, Ritual and Power, Shifting Power, Beliefs and Practices, and Crossing Boundaries. The first three sections are organized chronologically while the final two sections are organized by theme. Three hundred and fifty objects are displayed throughout the five galleries. These artifacts are a sample chosen from the Field Museum's significant China collection. This collection was gathered by the sinologist Berthold Laufer.{{Cite journal |last=Bronson |first=Bennet |date=2003 |title=Berthold Laufer |journal=Fieldiana |issue=36 |pages=117–126 |jstor=29782674}}

Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories opened as a permanent exhibition in 2021. This exhibit is an extensive renovation of the former Native American Hall at the Field Museum. Native Truths utilizes about 400 artifacts to interpret Native American culture and history while also addressing modern-day challenges. The exhibition is a result of a changing attitude towards Native Americans that emphasized Native peoples instead of Native artifacts.{{Cite journal |last=Collier |first=Donald |date=2003 |title=My Life with Exhibits at the Field Museum, 1941–1976 |journal=Fieldiana |issue=36 |pages=199–219 |jstor=29782681}}

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This exhibit is dedicated to the natural and cultural history of the Pacific Islands and is organized into five different sections: the natural history of the islands, the cultural origins of Pacific Islanders, a canoe display, an ethnographic collection showcasing New Guinea's Huon Gulf, and a modern Tahitian market. The final portion of the exhibit is dedicated to the ceremonial arts of the Pacific peoples.{{cite journal |last1=Kaeppler |first1=Adrienne |date=1991 |title=Untitled |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=93 |issue=1 |pages=269–270 |doi=10.1525/aa.1991.93.1.02a01100 |jstor=681580}} The majority of the collection was gathered by curator Albert Buell Lewis.{{cite journal |last1=Welsch |first1=Robert |date=2003 |title=Albert Buell Lewis: Realizing George Amos Dorsey's Vision |journal=Fieldiana |volume=36 |issue=36 |pages=99–115 |jstor=29782673}} Building upon Lewis' desire to portray cultures as living and participative, the exhibit was intentionally designed to demonstrate how the Pacific Islands interact with the contemporary world.{{cite journal |last1=Kahn |first1=Miriam |date=1995 |title=Heterotopic Dissonance in the Museum Representation of Pacific Island Cultures |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=97 |issue=2 |pages=324–338 |doi=10.1525/aa.1995.97.2.02a00100 |jstor=681965}}

The Grainger Hall of Gems consists of a large collection of diamonds and gems from around the world, and also includes a Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass window.{{Cite news|url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/grainger-hall-gems|title=Grainger Hall of Gems|last=jhoog|date=2011-01-11|work=The Field Museum|access-date=2018-03-31|language=en|archive-date=January 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118010339/https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/grainger-hall-gems|url-status=dead}} The Hall of Jades focuses on Chinese jade artifacts spanning 8,000 years.{{Cite news|url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/elizabeth-hubert-malott-hall-jades|title=Elizabeth Hubert Malott Hall of Jades|last=jhoog|date=2011-01-11|work=The Field Museum|access-date=2018-03-31|language=en|archive-date=April 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401004344/https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/elizabeth-hubert-malott-hall-jades|url-status=dead}} The Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies contains a large collection of fossil meteorites.{{cite web |last1=Heck |first1=Philipp |title=Fossil Meteorites Arrive at The Field Museum |url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/fossil-meteorites-arrive-field-museum |publisher=Field Museum of Natural History |access-date=4 March 2022 |date=12 November 2014}}{{cite web |title=Fossil Meteorites |url=https://meteorites.fieldmuseum.org/outreach/exhibit/fossil-meteorites |website=meteorites.fieldmuseum.org |publisher=Field Museum |access-date=27 August 2022}}

The Underground Adventure gives visitors a bug's-eye look at the world beneath their feet. Visitors can see what insects and soil look like from that size, while learning about the biodiversity of soil and the importance of healthy soil.{{Cite news|url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/underground-adventure|title=Underground Adventure|last=jsandy|date=2014-07-22|work=The Field Museum|access-date=2018-03-31|language=en|archive-date=April 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401004312/https://www.fieldmuseum.org/at-the-field/exhibitions/underground-adventure|url-status=dead}}

• DNA Discovery Center – Visitors can watch real scientists extract DNA from a variety of organisms. Museum goers can also speak to a live scientist through the glass every day and ask them any questions about DNA.
• McDonald's Fossil Prep Lab – The public can watch as paleontologists prepare real fossils for study.
• The Regenstein Pacific Conservation Laboratory – {{convert|1600|sqft|m2|adj=on}} conservation and collections facility. Visitors can watch as conservators work to preserve and study anthropological specimens from all over the world.

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On May 17, 2000, the Field Museum unveiled Sue, the largest T. rex specimen discovered at the time. Sue has a length of {{convert|40.5|ft|m|sp=us}}, stands {{convert|13|ft|m}} tall at the hips, and has been estimated at {{convert|8.4|-|14|MT|ST|lk=out|abbr=off|sigfig=3}} as of 2018.{{cite web |author= |title=How well do you know SUE?|date=11 August 2016 |publisher=Field Museum of Natural History |url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/how-well-do-you-know-sue|access-date=31 December 2018 }}{{cite web |date=February 5, 2018 |url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/sue-t-rex |title=Sue the T. Rex |publisher=Field Museum |access-date=July 20, 2018}} The specimen is estimated to be 67 million years old. The fossil was named after the person who discovered it, Sue Hendrickson, and is commonly referred to as female, although the dinosaur's actual sex is unknown.{{cite web |url=http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sue/about_vital.asp |title=Sue at The Field Museum: The Largest, Most Complete, Best Preserved T. Rex |date=2007 |publisher=The Field Museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515162635/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sue/about_vital.asp|archive-date=May 15, 2007 |access-date=June 28, 2015}} The original skull is not mounted to the body due to the difficulties in examining the specimen 13 feet off the ground, and for nominal aesthetic reasons (the replica does not require a steel support under the mandible). An examination of the bones revealed that Sue died at age 28, a record for the fossilized remains of a T. rex until Trix was found in 2013. In December 2018 after revisions of the skeletal assembly were made to reflect new concepts of Sue's structure,{{Cite press release |url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/i-sue-t-rex-am-moving-my-own-place-and-all-yall-are-invited |title=I (SUE the T. rex) am moving to my own place and all y'all are invited.|date=January 30, 2018 |publisher=Field Museum |access-date=June 4, 2018 |language=en}} display of the skeleton was moved into a new suite in The Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet.{{cite news |first=Kelly |last=Bauer |date=December 18, 2018 |url=https://blockclubchicago.org/2018/12/18/sue-the-t-rex-is-back-at-the-field-with-a-huge-new-suite-photos/ |title=Sue the T. Rex Is Back at the Field Museum with a Huge New Suite |publisher=Block Club Chicago |access-date=December 21, 2018}}

Professionally managed and maintained specimen and artifact collections, such as those at the Field Museum of Natural History, are a major research resource for the national and international scientific community, supporting extensive research that tracks environmental changes, benefits homeland security, public health and safety, and serves taxonomy and systematics research.{{cite journal |last1=Shaffer |first1=H. B. |last2=Fisher |first2=R. N. |last3=Davidson |first3=C. |year=1998 |title=The role of natural history collections in documenting species declines |journal=Trends in Ecology and Evolution |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=27–30 |doi=10.1016/S0169-5347(97)01177-4 |pmid=21238186|bibcode=1998TEcoE..13...27S }} Many of Field Museum's collections rank among the top ten collections in the world, e.g., the bird skin collection ranks fourth worldwide;{{cite journal |last1=Banks |first1=R. C. |last2=Clench |first2=M. H. |last3=Barlow |first3=J. C. |year=1973 |title=Bird collections in the United States and Canada |journal=Auk |volume=90 |pages=136–170}}{{cite journal |last=Lowther |first=P. |year=1995 |editor-last=Davis |editor-first=W. E. Jr. |editor2-last=Jackson |editor2-first=J. A. |title=Ornithology at the Field Museum. In: Contributions to the History of North American Ornithology |journal=Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club |volume=12 |pages=145–161}} the mollusk collection is among the five largest in North America;{{cite book |last1=Sturm |first1=C. F. |title=The Mollusks. A guide to their study, collection and preservation |last2=Pearce |first2=T. A. |last3=Valdés |first3=A. |publisher=American Malacological Society, Universal Publishers |year=2006 |location=Boca Raton, Florida |pages=445 |language=en-us}} the fish collection is ranked among the largest in the world.{{cite journal|vauthors=Poss SG, Collette BB|title=Second survey of fish collections in the United States and Canada|journal=Copeia|year=1995|volume=1995|issue=1|pages=48–70|doi=10.2307/1446799|jstor=1446799}}

The scientific collections of the Field Museum originate from the specimens and artifacts assembled between 1891 and 1893 for the World Columbian Exposition.{{cite book |last=Meyer |first=A. B. |title=Studies of the museums and kindred institutions of New York City, Albany, Buffalo, and Chicago, with notes on some European institutions [published in English, translated from German, in-depth comparative review of Field Museum exhibits, collections and operations around 1899–1900] |date=1905 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution, Government Printing office, No 138 |pages=311–608 |language=en-us}}{{cite journal |last=Collier |first=D. |date=1969 |title=Chicago Comes of Age: The World's Columbian Exposition and the Birth of Field Museum |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4375358 |journal=Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin |volume=40 |issue=5 |pages=2–7}}{{cite journal |title=An historical and descriptive account of the Field Columbian Museum |journal=Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, Pub. 1|date=1894|volume=12|issue=1|pages=1–91 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/14209#/summary}} Already at its founding, the Field Museum had a large anthropological collection.

A large number of the early natural history specimens were purchased from Ward's Natural History Establishment{{cite web |title=Ward's Natural Science Establishment Papers |url=https://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=1181 |date=1876–1988 |publisher=University of Rochester Libraries |access-date=June 28, 2015}} in Rochester, New York. An extensive acquisition program, including large expeditions conducted by the museum's curatorial staff resulted in substantial collection growth.{{cite book |last=Akeley |first=C. |title=In Brightest Africa |publisher=Garden City Publishers |year=1920 |language=en-us}} During the first 50 years of the museum's existence, over 440 Field Museum expeditions acquired specimens from all parts of the world.{{cite book |last=Field |first=Stanley |title=Address of Mr. Stanley Field, president of the Museum. In: Three addresses |publisher=Field Museum Press |year=1943 |location=Chicago, Illinois |pages=3–5 |language=en-us}}

In addition, material was added through purchase, such as H. N. Patterson's herbarium in 1900,{{cite book |last1=Ewan |first1=Joseph |title=Rocky Mountain Naturalists |date=1950 |publisher=University of Denver Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8CbPAAAAMAAJ |access-date=21 April 2020 |language=en}} and the Strecker butterfly collection in 1908.{{cite web |title=Butterfly and Moth Collection: Herman Strecker Collection |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/butterfly/herman.htm |date=2007 |publisher=The Field Museum |access-date=January 2, 2017}}

Extensive specimen material and artifacts were given to the museum by collectors and donors, such as the Boone collection of over 3,500 East Asian artifacts, consisting of books, prints and various objects. In addition, "orphaned collections" were and are taken in from other institutions such as universities that change their academic programs away from collections-based research. For example, already beginning in 1907, Field Museum accepted substantial botanical specimen collections from universities such as University of Chicago, Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago, into its herbarium. These specimens are maintained and continuously available for researchers worldwide. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to this botanic garden is F{{Cite web|url=http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=124518|title=Index Herbariorum|publisher=Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden|access-date=30 November 2021}} and it is used when citing housed specimens. Targeted collecting in the US and abroad for research programs of the curatorial and collection staff continuously add high quality specimen material and artifacts; e.g., Dr. Robert Inger's collection of frogs from Borneo as part of his research into the ecology and biodiversity of the Indonesian fauna.{{cite journal |last=Emerson |first=S. B. |year=1989 |title=Introduction, in: Emerson, S. B. (ed.) Contributions in celebration of the distinguished scholarship of Robert F. Inger on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday |journal=Fieldiana, Zoology, Festschrift |pages=v–vii}}{{cite journal |last=Kong |first=C. P. |year=1989 |title=My field trip to Ulu Kinabatangnan, North Borneo, with Robert Inger, in: Emerson, S. B. (ed.) Contributions in celebration of the distinguished scholarship of Robert F. Inger on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday |journal=Fieldiana, Zoology, Festschrift |pages=vii–viii}}

Collecting of specimens and acquisition of artifacts is nowadays subject to clearly spelled-out policies and standards, with the goal to acquire only materials and specimens for which the provenance can be established unambiguously. All collecting of biological specimens is subject to proper collecting and export permits; frequently, specimens are returned to their country of origin after study. Field Museum stands among the leading institutions developing such ethics standards and policies; Field Museum was an early adopter of voluntary repatriation practices of ethnological and archaeological artifacts.{{cite book |last=Conn |first=S. |title=Do museums still need objects? |date=2010 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-4190-7 |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |pages= |language=en-us}}

Field Museum collections are professionally managed{{cite web|url=http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/conserving-collections|title=Conserving Our Collections|work=The Field Museum|date=22 February 2011|access-date=February 11, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222182544/http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/conserving-collections|url-status=dead}} by collection managers and conservators, who are skilled in preparation and preservation techniques. Numerous maintenance and collection management tools were and are being advanced at Field Museum. For example, Carl Akeley's development of taxidermy excellence produced the first natural-looking mammal and bird specimens for exhibition as well as for study.{{cite book |last=Bodry-Sanders |first=P. |title=Carl Akeley: Africa's collector, Africa's savior |publisher=Paragon House |year=1990 |location=New York |pages= |language=en-us}} Field Museum curators developed standards and best practices for the care of collections.{{cite journal |last=Solem |first=A. |year=1980 |title=Standards for malacological collections |journal=Curator |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=19–28 |doi=10.1111/j.2151-6952.1981.tb00568.x}} Conservators at the Field Museum have made notable contributions to conservation science with methods of preservation of artifacts including the use of pheromone trapping for control of webbing clothes moths.{{cite book |last=Norton |first=R. E. |title=A case history of managing outbreaks of Webbing Clothes Moth (Tineola bisselliella) |publisher=Preprints of the ICOM C-C 11th Triennial Meeting |year=1996 |location=Paris |pages=61–67}}

The Field Museum was an early adopter of positive-pressure based approaches to control of environment in display cases,{{cite journal |last=Michalski |first=S. |year=1985 |title=A relative humidity control module |journal=Museum (UNESCO) |volume=146 |issue=2 |pages=85–88 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0033.1985.tb00556.x}} using control modules for humidity control in several galleries where room-level humidification was not practical.{{cite book |last1=Sease |first1=C. |title=Preventive conservation at the Field Museum" Preventive conservation: practice, theory and research. Preprints of the contributions to the Ottawa Congress, 12-16 September 1994 |last2=Anderson |first2=C. |publisher=eds Roy, Ashok; Smith, Perry. International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works |year=1994 |location=London, England |pages=44–47}}{{cite journal |last=Sease |first=C. |year=1990 |title=A new means of controlling relative humidity in exhibit cases |journal=Collection Forum |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=12–20}} The museum has also adopted a low-energy approach to maintain low humidity to prevent corrosion in archaeological metals using ultra-well-sealed barrier film micro-environments.{{cite journal |last=Brown |first=J. P. |year=2010 |title=The Field Museum Archaeological Metals Project: Distributed, In Situ Micro-Environments for the Preservation of Unstable Archaeological Metals Using Escal® Barrier Film |journal=Object Speciality Group Postprints |volume=17 |pages=133–146}} Other notable contributions include methods for dyeing Japanese papers to color match restorations in organic substrates,{{cite journal |last=Norton |first=R. E. |year=2003 |title=Dyeing Japanese paper with Fibre Reactive Dyes |journal=The Paper Conservator |volume=26 |pages=37–47 |doi=10.1080/03094227.2002.9638621 |s2cid=137546498}} the removal of display mounts from historic objects,{{cite journal |last1=Minderop |first1=J. |last2=Podsiki |first2=C. |last3=Norton |first3=R. E. |year=2007 |title=Deinstallation and cleaning of the 1950s galleries of ethnographical and archaeological material from the Americas at the Field Museum, Chicago |journal=Objects Specialty Group Postprints |volume=11 |pages=103–125}} testing of collections for residual heavy metal pesticides,{{cite book |last1=Klaus |first1=M. |title=Poster abstract: Preliminary results from a survey for residual arsenic on the North American collections at The Field Museum, Chicago |last2=Plitnikas |first2=J. |last3=Norton |first3=R. E. |last4=Almazan |first4=T. |last5=Coleman |first5=S. |publisher=Preprints of the 14th Triennial Meeting The Hague |year=2005 |location=Paris: ICOM |pages=127}}{{cite book |last1=Podsiki |first1=C. |title=Pesticide contaminated artifacts and the conservator. In Twenty-eighth annual ANAGPIC student conference: student papers: April 18–20, 2002 |last2=Koch |first2=I. |last3=Lee |first3=E. |last4=Ollsen |first4=C. |last5=Reimer |first5=K. |publisher=Harvard University Art Museums. Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies |year=2002 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |pages=111–123 |language=en-us}} presence of early plastics in collections,{{cite book |last1=Sease |first1=C. |title=Expect the unexpected: early uses of plastic in ethnographic collections |last2=Berry |first2=A. |publisher=In Preprints of the ICOM C-C 11th Triennial Meeting |year=1996 |location=Paris |pages=639–642}} the effect of sulfurous products in display cases,{{cite journal |last1=Sease |first1=C. |last2=Selwyn |first2=L. |last3=Zubiate |first3=S. |last4=Bowers |first4=D. |last5=Atkins |first5=D. |year=1997 |title=Problems with coated silver: whisker formation and possible filiform corrosion |journal=Studies in Conservation |volume=42 |pages=1–10 |doi=10.1179/sic.1997.42.1.1}} and the use of light tubes in display cases.{{cite journal |last=Sease |first=C. |year=1993 |title=Light piping: a new lighting system for museum cases |journal=Journal of the American Institute for Conservation |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=279–290 |doi=10.1179/019713693806124884}}

Concordant with research developments, new collection types, such as frozen tissue collections, requiring new collecting and preservation techniques are added to the existing holdings.{{cite journal |last1=Bates |first1=J. M. |last2=Bowie |first2=R. C. K. |last3=Willard |first3=D. E. |last4=Voelker |first4=G. |last5=Kahindo |first5=C. |year=2004 |title=A need for continued collecting of avian voucher specimens in Africa: Why blood is not enough |journal=Ostrich |volume=75 |issue=4 |pages=187–191 |doi=10.2989/00306520409485442 |bibcode=2004Ostri..75..187B |s2cid=5957433}}{{cite book |last1=Bates |first1=J. M. |title=Tecnicas y materiales para la preservación de tejidos congelados. In: Curación moderna de colecciones ornitolólogicas |last2=Hackett |first2=S. J. |last3=Zink |first3=R. M. |publisher=American Ornithologists' Union |year=1993 |editor-last=Escalante-Pliego |editor-first=P. |location=Washington, DC |pages=75–78}}

Despite the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 1990, the Field Museum is estimated to hold more than 1000 Native American remains that have not been repatriated.{{Cite news |last1=Brewer |first1=Logan Jaffe |last2=Hudetz |first2=Mary |last3=Ngu |first3=Ash |last4=Lee |first4=Graham |date=2023-01-11 |title=America's Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains |language=en-us |work=ProPublica |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/repatriation-nagpra-museums-human-remains |access-date=2023-06-28}}

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Collection management requires meticulous record keeping. Handwritten ledgers captured specimen and artifact data in the past. Field Museum was an early adopter of computerization of collection data beginning in the late 1970s.{{cite web|last=National Science Foundation|title=The Assessment of the Needs of Free-Standing Museums for the Computerization of Collections Management and Related Research, BSR-9118843, award summary|url=http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9118843&HistoricalAwards=false|access-date=1 December 2013}} Field Museum contributes its digitized collection data to a variety of online groups and platforms, such as: HerpNet, VertNet and Antweb,{{cite web|url=http://www.antweb.org/|title=AntWeb|work=antweb.org}} Global Biodiversity Information Facility (also known as GBif),{{cite web |title=Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data – GBIF.org |url=https://www.gbif.org/ |work=gbif.org}} and others. All Field Museum collection databases are unified and currently maintained in KE EMu software system. The research value of digitized specimen data and georeferenced locality data is widely acknowledged,{{cite web|url=https://www.idigbio.org/|title=iDigBio Home|work=iDigBio}} enabling analyses of distribution shifts due to climate changes, land use changes and others.{{cite journal |last1=Suarez |first1=A. V. |last2=Tsutsui |first2=N. D. |date=2004 |title=The value of museum collections for research and society |journal=BioScience |volume=54 |pages=66–74 |doi=10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0066:tvomcf]2.0.co;2 |doi-access=free}}

During the World's Columbian Exposition, all acquired specimens and objects were on display; the purpose of the World's Fair was exhibition of these materials. For example, just after opening of the Columbian Museum of Chicago, the mollusk collection occupied one entire exhibit hall, displaying 3,000 species of mollusks on about {{convert|1260|sqft}}. By 1910, 20,000 shell specimens were on display, with an additional 15,000 "in storage".{{cite journal |last=Rea |first=P. M. |date=1910 |title=A directory of American Museums of Art, History and Science |journal=Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=3–360}}

Only a small fraction of the specimens and artifacts are publicly displayed. The vast majority of specimens and artifacts are used by a wide range of people in the museum and around the world. Field Museum curatorial faculty and their graduate students and postdoctoral trainees use the collections in their research and in training e.g., in formal high school and undergraduate training programs. Researchers from all over the world can search online for particular specimens and request to borrow them, which are shipped routinely under defined and published loan policies, to ensure that the specimens remain in good condition.{{cite web|url=http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/zoology/invertebrates/collections|title=Invertebrates|work=The Field Museum|date=8 November 2010|access-date=February 11, 2014|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222182555/http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/zoology/invertebrates/collections|url-status=dead}} For example, in 2012, Field Museum's Zoology collection processed 419 specimen loans, shipping over 42,000 specimens to researchers, per its Annual Report.{{cite web|url=http://www.fieldmuseum.org/explore/collections-and-research-annual-reports|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014042217/http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/collections-and-research-annual-reports|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-10-14|title=Collections and Research Annual Reports|work=The Field Museum}}

The collection specimens are an important cornerstone of research infrastructure in that each specimen can be re-examined and with the advancement of analytic techniques, new data can be gleaned from specimens that may have been collected more than 150 years ago.{{cite web|url=http://www.fieldmuseum.org/explore/our-collections|title=Research & Collections|work=The Field Museum|date=17 April 2018|access-date=February 11, 2014|archive-date=February 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209095430/http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/our-collections|url-status=dead}}

The library at the Field Museum was organized in 1893 for the museum's scientific staff, visiting researchers, students, and members of the general public as a resource for research, exhibition development and educational programs. The 275,000 volumes of the Main Research Collections concentrate on biological systematics, environmental and evolutionary biology, anthropology, botany, geology, archaeology, museology and related subjects.{{Cite web |last=grings |date=2011-01-13 |title=History of the Library |url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/research/area/libraryarchives/history-library |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=Field Museum |language=en}} The Field Museum Library includes the following collections:

This private collection of Edward E. Ayer, the first president of the museum, contains virtually all the important works in the history of ornithology and is especially rich in color-illustrated works.{{Cite book |last1=Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library |url=http://archive.org/details/catalogueofedwar161edwa |title=Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library |last2=Field Museum of Natural History |last3=Zimmer |first3=John Todd |last4=Osgood |first4=Wilfred Hudson |date=1926 |publisher=Field Museum of Natural History |others=University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |location=Chicago, Illinois |language=en-us}}

The working collection of Dr. Berthold Laufer, America's first sinologist and Curator of Anthropology until his death in 1934, consists of about 7,000 volumes in Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, and numerous Western languages on anthropology, archaeology, religion, science, and travel.{{Cite web |title=American Museum of Natural History Research Library: Laufer, Berthold 1874–1934 (amnhp_1001230) |url=https://data.library.amnh.org/archives-authorities/id/amnhp_1001230 |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=data.library.amnh.org}}

The photo archives contain over 250,000 images in the areas of anthropology, botany, geology and zoology and documents the history and architecture of the museum, its exhibitions, staff and scientific expeditions. In 2008 two collections from the Photo Archives became available via the Illinois Digital Archives (IDA): The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893{{cite web|url=http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Ffmnh|title=World's Columbian Exposition of 1893|work=idaillinois.org}} and Urban Landscapes of Illinois.{{cite web |title=Urban Landscapes of Illinois: Digitization of Original Glass Negatives |url=http://www.fieldmuseum.org/urbanlandscapes/ |date=2008 |publisher=The Field Museum |access-date=June 28, 2015 |archive-date=May 17, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517112450/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/urbanlandscapes/ |url-status=dead }} In April 2009, the Photo Archives became part of Flickr Commons.{{cite news|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/field_museum_library/|title=Flickr: The Field Museum Library's Photostream| work=Flickr}}

The Karl P. Schmidt Memorial Herpetological Library, named for Karl Patterson Schmidt is a research library containing over 2,000 herpetological books and an extensive reprint collection.{{cite web|title=Division of Amphibians and Reptiles|date=8 November 2010|url=http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/zoology/amphibians-and-reptiles|publisher=The Field Museum|access-date=7 August 2012|archive-date=August 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830115211/http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/zoology/amphibians-and-reptiles|url-status=dead}}

The Field Museum's Double Elephant folio of Audubon's The Birds of America is one of only two known copies that were arranged in taxonomic order. Additionally, it contains all 13 composite plates. The Field's copy belonged to Audubon's family physician Dr. Benjamin Phillips.Williams, Benjamin W. "Audubon's The Birds of America and the Remarkable History of Field Museum's copy." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 57, no. 6 (June 1986): 7–21. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4352797.

The Field Museum offers opportunities for informal and more structured public learning. Exhibitions remain the primary means of informal education, but throughout its history the Museum has supplemented this approach with innovative educational programs. The Harris Loan Program, for example, begun in 1912, reaches out to children in Chicago area schools, offering artifacts, specimens, audiovisual materials, and activity kits.{{cite web|url=http://harris.fieldmuseum.org/index/default.php |title=Harris Learning Collection |work=fieldmuseum.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231214313/http://harris.fieldmuseum.org/index/default.php |archive-date=2013-12-31 }} The Department of Education, begun in 1922, offers classes, lectures, field trips, museum overnights and special events for families, adults and children.{{Cite web |title=EUFAR – The EUropean Facility for Airborne Research |url=http://eufar.net/users/1926/ |access-date=2022-05-25 |website=eufar.net |language=en}} The Field has adopted production of the YouTube channel The Brain Scoop, hiring its host Emily Graslie full-time as 'Chief Curiosity Correspondent'.{{cite web |title=Staff – Emily Graslie |url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/1146 |access-date=24 May 2018 |website=The Field Museum |archive-date=May 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525063315/https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/1146 |url-status=dead }}

The Museum's curatorial and scientific staff in the departments of Anthropology,{{cite web|url=http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/anthropology|title=Culture|work=The Field Museum|date=2 November 2010|access-date=November 30, 2012|archive-date=October 11, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011212957/http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/anthropology|url-status=dead}} Botany,{{cite web |title=Research & Collections: Botany |url=http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/botany/default.htm |date=2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426205820/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/botany/default.htm |archive-date=April 26, 2009 |publisher=The Field Museum |access-date=June 28, 2015}} Geology,{{cite web|url=http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/geology|title=Fossils & Meteorites|work=The Field Museum|date=8 November 2010|access-date=November 30, 2012|archive-date=December 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121210235338/http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/geology|url-status=dead}} and Zoology{{cite web|url=http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/zoology|title=Animals|work=The Field Museum|date=27 October 2010|access-date=August 7, 2012|archive-date=September 13, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913054230/http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/zoology|url-status=dead}} conducts basic research in systematic biology and anthropology, besides its responsibility for collections management, and educational programs. It has long maintained close links, including joint teaching, students, seminars, with the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago.{{cite web|title= Academic Training & Research Education|url=https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/careers/academic-training-research-education|work=The Field Museum|date=31 March 2016}} Professional symposia and lectures, like the annual A. Watson Armour III Spring Symposium, present scientific results to the international scientific community and the public at large.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

The museum used to publish four peer-reviewed monograph series issued under the collective title Fieldiana, devoted to anthropology, botany, geology and zoology.{{cite web |url=http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/fieldiana/ |title=Fieldiana |access-date=2008-01-26 |publisher=Field Museum |archive-date=2009-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090317170202/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/fieldiana/ |url-status=dead }}

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• {{cite journal |last1=Lloyd |first1=Timothy |title=The Cyrus Tang Hall of China: Deep Tradition, Dynamic Change |journal=Museum Anthropology Review |date=2017 |volume=11 |issue=1–2 |pages=15–16 |doi=10.14434/mar.v11i1.23543 |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Lupton |first1=Carter |last2=Rathburn |first2=Robert |title=Maritime Peoples of the Arctic and Northwest Coast. A Permanent Exhibit at the Field Museum of Natural History |journal=American Anthropologist |date=1984 |volume=86 |issue=1 |pages=229–230 |doi=10.1525/aa.1984.86.1.02a00790}}
• {{cite journal |last1=McVicker |first1=Donald |title=A Tale of Two Thompsons: The Contributions of Edward H. Thompson and J. Eric S. Thompson to Anthropology at the Field Museum |journal=Fieldiana |date=2003 |volume=36 |issue=36 |pages=139–152 |jstor=29782676}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Nash |first1=Stephen |title=Paul Sidney Martin |journal=Fieldiana |date=2003 |volume=36 |issue=36 |pages=165–177 |jstor=29782678}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Richter |first1=Elizabeth |title=Alaka Wali: Change Agent at the Field Museum |journal=Classic Chicago Magazine |date=August 13, 2022 |url=https://classicchicagomagazine.com/alaka-wali-change-agent-at-the-field-museum/}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Welsch |first1=Robert |title=Albert Buell Lewis: Realizing George Amos Dorsey's Vision |journal=Fieldiana |date=2003 |volume=36 |issue=36 |pages=99–115 |jstor=29782673}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Yastrow |first1=Ed |last2=Nash |first2=Stephen |title=Henry Field, Collections, and Exhibit Development, 1926–1941 |journal=Fieldiana |date=2003 |volume=36 |issue=36 |pages=127–138 |jstor=29782675}}

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