Frank Robb—widely known as “Alligator Robb”—is a renowned wildlife and crocodilian expert from Florida’s Space Coast. He serves as President of Environmental Education Awareness Research Support and ...

The Museum will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 27. We will re-open Friday, November 28 at 9am.

In 1893, the private collection of 19,000 specimens of Charles. B. Cory established the ornithological research collections and Cory was named Curator of Ornithology (for life) without residence ...

Minerals from the Field Museum collection are made available to qualified scientists around the world for research projects. The mineralogy of meteorites is also studied by Field Museum scientists and ...

Bird Division research is centered around our collections. Shannon Hackett works on the systematics and biogeography of birds, focusing currently on genomic-scale data and how they contribute to an ...

The Field Museum's physical geology collection has a long and unique history. It has grown over the years through a combination of purchases, scientific collecting and donations. The 1893 Columbian ...

As with all of Field Museum's paleontological collections, the Fossil Bird Collection began with specimens from the Wards Natural Science Establishment exhibit at the Columbian Exposition of 1894.