Corner display with a verdant mural of dinosaurs and other creatures in a swamp, over four cases with small fossils.

View of right side of mural, with resting T. rex in the center.

View of left side of the mural, with Pachycephalosaurus among some cypress

Big T. rex skeleton on platform, mural visible in the far distance

At long last, Beth Zaiken’s spectacular He’ll Creek mural is permanently installed in the Sue gallery!

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the ramp took up too much valuable space...

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one thing the floorplan doesn't convey is that visitors could easily bypass all the exhibits before the dino hall. And bypass these confusing exhibits they did.

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Giant penguins and the world’s longest snake: Field Museum digs into the era that followed the dinosaurs We know the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions of years in between?

Giant penguins and the world's longest snake: Field Museum digs into the era that followed the dinosaurs www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/10/f...

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One of the coolest things in After the Age of Dinosaurs is our Diatryma! The Field acquired this set of plaster casts in a 1937 trade with AMNH, but it's never been mounted for display before. Seeing it stand up for the first time was incredible.

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Plesiadapis squirrel-monkeys scamper through a tree in front of a purple sky. Cartoony pop-art style illustration.

The website for After the Age of Dinosaurs is up! We’re still screaming to get it done for Labor Day weekend but I hope you all love this slightly trippy exhibit about the slightly trippy recovery period after the end-Cretaceous extinction. (cont’d) www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibition/a...

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Samoan culture shared, celebrated during live art collaboration at the Field Museum Volunteers from Chicago and beyond joined master artists in creating traditional Samoan artwork for an upcoming exhibition.

Volunteers from Chicago and beyond joined master artists in creating traditional Samoan artwork for an upcoming exhibition.
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‘Reptiles Alive!’ is now open at the Field Museum, changing the way you look at snakes, lizards and even birds Legless lizards, anyone? Breaking down assumptions about reptiles has been the life’s work of associate curator Sara Ruane.

'Reptiles Alive!' is now open at the Field Museum, changing the way you look at snakes, lizards and even birds www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/09/r...

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Field Museum Hosts First-Ever African Fashion Show for Juneteenth Celebration Chicago’s Field Museum made history on Juneteenth 2025 with its first African fashion show, blending cultural pride, bold design, and community celebration during African Fashion on the Runway.

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Dark display area with various mounted reptile skeletons under green spotlight. Cartoony reptile images are on a projected screen behind them.

How do you establish a shared language of key terms to an audience looking for fun, not homework? Our attempt in Reptiles Alive is this "object theater" at the beginning of the exhibition. (cont’d)

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Opening day and Gwangi is ready for his close up!

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The State of Illinois has a new Poet Laureate and fellow poets rejoice Native American poet Mark Turcotte was introduced on Tuesday by Governor JB Pritzker as our state’s latest official poet.

The State of Illinois has a new Poet Laureate and fellow poets rejoice www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/t...

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Does your feline think she’s a tiger? ‘Cats: Predators to Pets’ at the Field Museum shows she has a point The temporary exhibit lets you test your hearing against that of a cat, learn about wild animals and enter your own furball in a photo contest.

Does your feline think she's a tiger? 'Cats: Predators to Pets' at the Field Museum shows she has a point www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/21/d...

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🚨BREAKING🚨

Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency

After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.

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Will Biden Free Leonard Peltier? Indigenous Leaders Urge Not to Let Him Die in Prison After commuting the sentences of over 2,500 people imprisoned for nonviolent drug offenses, Joe Biden has set a record for most pardons and commutations by a U.S. president. But Indigenous political prisoner...

Will Biden Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency? Indigenous Leaders Plead, "Don't Let Him Die in Prison"

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Bronze archaeopteryx @ the Field Museum

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Cover features watercolor painting of taxidermy kudu group in a case with cheetahs visible in the background.

I've been reading Paul Brinkman's (why aren't you on here yet?) new book, Now is the Time to Collect (2024 University of Alabama Press). It chronicles the museum's expedition to Somalia of 1896. This is when the cheetah kittens—and most of the African mammals on display—were collected.

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A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

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