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3 hours was not enough time to see half this place at a leisure pace.

Beautifull museum, better than the National History Museum in NYC

Great place to visit take the kids,and wear comfortable shoes.

The Field Museum was a wonderful experience. Normally you would have to pay separate admission for special exhibits, however we purchased the *CitiPass which allowed us admission to the museum and included admission to special exhibits (temporary exhibits). We were very impressed with the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit. The Underground Adventure exhibit was very interesting and as an interactive exhibit much fun for children. Also worth the visit was the special exhibit Inside Ancient Egypt. Plan to spend several hours walking through the many exhibits The Field Museum has to offer. A great place for families. Very friendly helpful staff. Two nice vending machine picnic areas where you could sit for a moment to have a drink and a snack. There are also two places to sit and enjoy friendly dining. Highly recommend this museum!

Overpriced for what it is. Unfortunately a large portion of this museum was under construction when we went so we only got to see small parts of it. Still paid full price even though it was under construction. They should discount during those times.

Allow a full day if you can! It's amazing! I only regret being limited to 4 hours when we went.

Amazing museum. You can spend the day discovering amazing things.

Museum with a great variety of exhibitions ranging from ancient Egypt, meso america, animals and plants to dinosaurs. I spent a while day just to visit the general exhibits. 3D movies and special exhibitions are extra.
There are special events per year that provide begins the scenes access which are worth visiting.

Great museum! 3 large floors so either get there early and plan to spend the entire day or plan to do multiple days. If you really like to take your time and read every exhibit, you probably need a day per floor. Quite a variety of exhibits from animals & skeletons to countries & culture to varied collections. When I went they had the Chinese Terracotta Warriors and the Women of Vision photography exhibits, which were both fabulous! The museum is definitely worth a visit...or two...or three!

Had a wonderful time at the museum today! Great exhibits!

Absolutely wonderful time. I didn't get to see all the exhibits but with little time I had it was definitely one i would visit again. Sue wasn't available to see due to a new location will be going up for her. I do recommend buying tickets online. So once you arrive you show up at will call and get through right away.

Great place to watch a few shows and learn something new. Especially good for children but I ended up enjoying myself as well. The Egyptian show and exhibit are both really good.

A very very great place! I recommend everyone to visit, because there are a lot of things to learn. Tickets are a little expensive, but it's worth it. It's the greatest museum I've ever seen!!

Always love the museum every time i am there. My wife and I loved the Terracotta warrior exhibit.

cant enter today no parking for persons with dissabilities/ close to the building

It's nice but at the moment not everything is available.

I like it a lot. The place is huge and basically has its own taxidermied zoo. My only complaint is that they try to upcharge you for about 1/3 of the exhibits. If you don't pay for the movies or special access there are a significant number of exhibits you cannot see. The museum is still huge and has enough to see, but I can imagine a kid being disappointed by not being able to see everything.

Absolutely beautiful! I could spend a week in here.

Incredibly interesting museum! I really enjoyed the older parts of the museum (animal and plant specimens plus geology), but I think the kids might really like the higher-tech exhibits. The entry is a little spendy, but completely worth it!

Awesome museum, phenomenal collection. Definitely worth a visit.

Love the museum. We've been members for 2 years and have loved every minute. Great exhibits, friendly staff, something for all ages.

My nephew wanted to go here and I thought I will be super bored here but instead this totally took all of my day. I will go back here again and may be discover more. I recommend this place if you are a curious mind. There is so much to learn here. Must go if you are in Chicago.

This place is awesome. My new favorite museum highly recommend. but also take the whole day to see it.

This store is very special, because we can enjoy different kinds of culture in the same place.

Had an amazing time. The Field is always worth visiting!!

Fantastic place... take time to slow down and read. Lots of great stories and connections to be made.

Great museum covering lots of great content. Animals, plants, architecture and so on. The biggest attraction is definitely the dinosaurs fossil, the biggest in the world so far! Others such as African, Egypt, China, pacific contents are extensive and elaborate as well. Can easily spend a day here!

We spent all day here and had so much fun! We learned and explored on every floor! Definitely recommend to everyone!

Great adventure but extremely expensive. You need to plan a whole day event to see most of the stuff. It is very educational and fun. We have watched also a 3d movie which was fun. It would be 5 stars if it would not be so so so expensive (big rubber T-rex at the store costs $115+tax which is ridiculous)

This was the best museums that i have been to dealing with natural sciences

A great place to know some natural history and about different cultures of the world. I recommend arriving early, if you plan to tour the entire museum, as it has enough rooms to go.

One option is to previously visit the website of the site and define what exhibitions you want to visit.

The Citypass prevents you from having to queue.

It's good huge and Lott's of information is hidden there.

I was disappointed in their dinosaur exhibits. The Science Museum in St Paul MN has so much more to offer.

Okay exhibits, but nothing particularly breathtaking if you've traveled, especially around Europe and its museums. The staff is extremely unhelpful and unfriendly, so that completely ruined our first (and last) visit. There may have been some good special exhibits at the time of our visit, but we didn't see them due to the whole experience with staff that wasn't helpful and didn't care about visitors.

Was there for a black tie gala event for Little Company of Mary hospital. Food was good. 5 star dining proportions thought , so not too much. Everything else very elite. Exhibit on jewelry was gorgeous.

It had been at least 40 years since I had visited the field museum. It's more interactive and more navigable and very much the same fascinating place I grew up visiting.

The Field is phenomenal! Young or old there is something for everyone. Say hi to Sue the T-Rex in the fossil exhibit.

To start off the exhibits or cool don't get me wrong but it's hard to be enthralled with and exhibit when there's a little tag marking the item number of the exhibit piece on every single item behind every single glass cage like it's behind a glass cage. The least you could do is hide the tag underneath the item or even behind the item so that it's not pointing right in the view of the people walking through the museum. You trying to like soak up a piece of history or someone's culture or Etc and there's a big tag totally takes away from actually looking at the thing as something that's unique not just something that's catalog behind glass.

Nice collection of stuffed animals, but too brief on the explanations of each part of the museum

Visit at least once in yout life. You wont be disappointed.

A great place to learn different ways of life, animals, very beautiful history I recommend one hundred percent

Go on a free day! It's well worth the price of admission. You can do a lot of things from seeing dinosaurs to going to Egypt and much more... If you are visiting from out of town do yourself a favor and come and check it out!

Wonderful exhibit. Loads of exhibitions which are interactive and engaging. Would recommend going for at least 5 hours.

The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum maintains its status as a premier natural-history museum through the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, as well as due to its extensive scientific-specimen and artifact collections. The diverse, high-quality permanent exhibitions,[8] which attract up to two million visitors annually, range from the earliest fossils to past and current cultures from around the world to interactive programming demonstrating today's urgent conservation needs. The museum is named in honor of its first major benefactor, the department-store magnate Marshall Field. The museum and its collections originated from the 1893 World s Columbian Exposition and the artifacts displayed at the fair. The museum maintains a temporary exhibition program of traveling shows as well as in-house produced topical exhibitions. The professional staff maintains collections of over 24 million specimens and objects that provide the basis for the museum s scientific-research programs. These collections include the full range of existing biodiversity, gems, meteorites, fossils, and rich anthropological collections and cultural artifacts from around the globe. The museum's library, which contains over 275,000 books, journals, and photo archives focused on biological systematics, evolutionary biology, geology, archaeology, ethnology and material culture, supports the museum s academic-research faculty and exhibit development. The academic faculty and scientific staff engage in field expeditions, in biodiversity and cultural research on every continent, in local and foreign student training, and in stewardship of the rich specimen and artifact collections. They work in close collaboration with public programming exhibitions and education initiatives.

Came to see Sue and enjoyed every exhibit. Every exhibit was well displayed with thoughtful information and facts, giving more to the experience. Went earlier (maybe about 10am) on a Wednesday and it was pleasantly clear until about 1pm, then all the parents with their screaming kids seemed to show up all at once. Tips: go early, book online in advance, read the plaques! Already wanting to go back, there's tons to see and even with general admission, did not have a chance to see everything.

Great place to spend an entire day. There is so much to see, you have to pace yourself. Start with your favorites because the day flies by and you can't see it all. This museum rivals the Natural History Museum in DC.

My home town have learned a lot here and now find my own fossils in the illinos regions were trilobites once lived.

Great family trip. The dinosaurs was the biggest hit with the Egypt exhibit a close second. We did not have time to see it all with a 3 year old because he had his favorites. The 3 D dinosaur movie was his highlight for sure.

Great exhibits. We spent most of a day here and still didn't get through them all.

Love the Field Museum. A great family destination right on the lake. Tons of great exhibits all the time. The standard exhibits are fun to check out and too much for a single visit, so plan accordingly. The rotating exhibits are always fascinating, as well. With several options for video viewing, the visit can be broken up with a 20-minute show. Lots of parking right on the site, or if you're willing to walk, there are a bunch of pay parking garages nearby for much cheaper.

Wonderful Museum! The place is really good option to visit with family.

There's a lot to see, especially the vast collection of fossils in display. I guarantee you won't finish everything in just a day of visit.

Great place, a lot to see. Way too many people, great exhibits.

I haven't been here in YEARS and I was blown away at the Majesty of this place. It just goes on and on and on with amazingly detailed recreations from the past and with beautiful re relations of present animals. My daughter and I just loved losing ourselves in the different worlds that the museum has curated. I can't wait to visit again soon and finish walking through all of its exhibits.

Get there early to beat the special exhibit crowds and call ahead to make sure the bag/coat check is open!

It was a great learning experience for us as a family.

It is very fulfilling to learn about where we people came from, how we got here, who and what directed us, as well as when we evolved into the beings we are. Our predecessors paved the way for us in many aspects. They faced several different types of problems which they had to solve in order to survive, as we do in today's world; however they did not have the technology we have today to guide them in finding the solutions for these problems like we would be able to through the use of scriptures found in the internet, books, and other guides. Not only are we able to study these people (the ones that still remain) in anthropology, but we are able to acquire knowledge about how the Homo sapiens evolved into the myriad of cultures present in the twenty-first century.

We can attend an exhibition, which would help us understand our origins, in a museum such as the Field Museum in Chicago. The one specific tremendous exhibit worth seeing in this museum is The Ancient Americans. This exposition opens eyes for the contemporary commoner through the presented divergent as well as convergent viewpoints of the many indigenous people and anthropologists. The gathered information about these tribes or societies is demonstrated through multifaceted angles, and for this very reason this exhibit allows for the modern mid-twenty American male to be able to interpret this information. This display is depicted this way for the reasons of having the people from the outside of such a culture to be able to compare and connect their lives with the lives of the culture of these Ancient Americans. The curators were considerate about the interest of the public; therefore, they want to ensure the satisfaction and inclusion of the cultures of peoples who reside in today's society, especially due to the fact that we all are a breed of the different experiences of our ancestors. The curator's voices are the responsible medians which fulfill the requirements of the Public Interest Anthropology in these compromising depictions of the indigenous forefathers of the Americas.

We cannot discredit our precursors for the hard work they put in through their diligence and determination; for it is thanks to them that we are able to live in the technologically inclined society of today's world. I believe the ways that this exhibit demonstrates the indigenous people's culture is more than sufficient because it allows for everyone to connect with the culture on one level or another regardless of race, gender, and origin of the person venturing the exhibition. I concur with Sabloff arguing that we need museums because they assist us people to get in touch with our inner self as well as strengthen our interpersonal bonds with the people around us. The curators, visitors and the indigenous people all rely on each other in multiple fashions for survival. The entire system in our world functions as a whole of the parts; we can understand this concept of holism by learning about the parts (other cultures) and comparing them through comparativism. We can do this by exposing ourselves to the different cultures and learning about them through their viewpoints and not our own so to not be ethnocentric.

Great place. I haven't been here in over 20 years. I recently went with my son on a class trip and we had a good time. I will be back with the family.

Has a lot of geological and historical information/artifacts. Good for a rainy day or class field trip. Has two floors. Members get to go behind the scenes to look at artifacts hidden from the public. Has interesting facts and information for people of all ages and backgrounds. Overall, 4 out 5

I did not have it in the plans, but since I could not get into the aquarium, I took advantage of the opportunity to enter the one next to it.

I loved it. It has exhibitions of different historical things of the world. It stands out for having dinosaur skeletons and a section of mummies quite interesting and careful.

After having visited the Adler Planetarium and the Museum of Science and Industry, I believe that this museum is the best for adults. The other two are more didactic, so they are recommended only if you are going with children.

Still, I recommend going to museums in Chicago only if there is time left, because they do not offer large samples as it can happen in NY or in Europe.

This was my fav time learning about the past my favorite thing about it was the mummy exhibit

Great visit....love the new exhibits...especially Sue

Great exhibits! Loved "Sue" the dinosaur. Very friendly staff.