More than three dozen free days are coming up at iconic Chicago museums this fall, including an unexpected free day at The ...

By Amanda Holpuch A look at how the Field Museum in Chicago is responding to recent federal regulations that have led officials to cover objects they may need to return to tribes. By Julia Jacobs ...

The Field Museum's extra free day comes on the same day the display of the museum's newest fossil, Chicago Archaeopteryx, opens to the public What's better than visiting one of Chicago's famed ...

Le Monte Booker, chief financial officer of Chicago’s Field Museum, will succeed Colette Pierce Burnette in the role of Newfields CEO and president starting in late October, officials announced ...

“ Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds, because it’s just so weird—it has this long skull, and teeth only at the ...

Paleontologists say the birds were eating fruits, despite a long-standing hypothesis that they feasted on fish or insects.

That love was evident late last year when the Elmhurst History Museum opened an exhibit based on the book “Remembering Marshall Field’s and Lost Chicago Department Stores” by Leslie Goddard ...

A first-of-its-kind museum opened in Uptown earlier this month. The Chicago Fair Trade Museum, located at 4704 North Broadway ...

It was a whistle-stop visit of the ploughing site, only long enough to marvel again the vastness of Anna May McHugh’s ...

which include admissions to the museum. The Chicago CityPASS also covers access to a 3D film. The Field Museum is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but no visitors are admitted after 4 p.m. The ...

The home of the Indianapolis Museum of Art announced Monday that LeMonte G. Booker Sr. will start in the position in late October. Booker is coming from Chicago's Field Museum, where he has been ...