Field Museum

One of the world's largest natural history museums in Chicago — home to the most famous T. rex skeleton, Egyptian mummies, and 40 million exhibits.

The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago is one of the largest and most significant natural history museums in the world. Founded for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, it now occupies a magnificent neoclassical building on the shores of Lake Michigan in Grant Park. Across five floors and more than 85,000 square meters, it houses over 40 million objects — including Sue, the most complete known Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, Egyptian mummies, the reconstructed Inside Ancient Egypt gallery, and exhibits on the natural history of the Earth. More than 500 full-time employees and an annual budget of over $50 million make it one of the world's most professionally run museums. Completing a full tour in a single day is considered nearly impossible.