Through May 4, the National Cowboy Museum exhibit features boots from Will Rogers, Andre the Giant, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and more.

The Museo de Momias de Guanajuato caught me by surprise. I had heard from my Mexican friends that they all visited as kids, ...

A survey found that Americans think the coolest work you can do in Illinois is be a fossil expert at the Field Museum.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, ...

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Colgate University, Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Hamilton, NY 10/09/2019 Notice. Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Brooklyn Museum, ...

In 2022, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the Field Museum $1M in funding to connect indigenous communities in the US with their collections here in Chicago (#MellonConnections). The program ...

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 09/03/2019 Notice. Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Kootenai National Forest ...

Also in the mix is the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, another landmark that fully opened in 2021 and whose main draw is its haunting collection of royal mummies. All three are worthy of ...

PlayLab PlayDates are free to museum guests, don’t require pre-registration, and take place on IL Resident Free Days! Sessions take place in the Crown Family PlayLab.

which means the teachers and students are about to head out on their annual field trip celebration. This time, they’ll be visiting the Please Touch Museum, after previous plans for the aquarium ...

Found at the Takarkori rock shelter in Libya, these mummies, the remains of female herders, belong to a population that defies the genetic expectations researchers had based on the region’s history.