The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Dr , Chicago, IL 60605
Phone: 312-922-9410
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Chicago's famed Field Museum, housed in the Fine Arts Building of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, is dedicated to the study of the naturial sciences.
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Take the voluminous sciences of anthropology, botany, geology, paleontology and zoology, and give them and their practitioners one roof under which to gather the fruits of their careers and you have the Field Museum. Biological, geological and cultural objects are collected here, and are supported with all kinds of media and technical expertise. The museum's collections boast an inventory of more than 20 million items!
The Field Museum was incorporated in the State of Illinois on September 16, 1893 as the Columbian Museum of Chicago with the purpose the "accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of objects illustrating art, archaeology, science and history."
In 1905, the Museum's name was changed to Field Museum of Natural History to honor the Museum's first major benefactor, Marshall Field, and to better reflect its focus on the natural sciences. In 1921, the Museum moved from its original location in Jackson Park to its present site on Chicago Park District property near downtown where it is part of a lakefront Museum Campus that includes the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium.
These three institutions are regarded as among the finest of their kind in the world and together attract more visits annually than any comparable site in Chicago.
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