Field Museum of Natural History

Pros: Something for everyone, frequent new additions, Underground Adventure
Cons: A little pricey, old-fashioned animal displays, can be a bit crowded

I have visited Chicago’s Field Museum many times, but my most recent visit was about three months ago, on a Saturday. (December 2004) The museum is located on Chicago’s Museum Campus, adjacent to Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium. It is ...

Pros: Interesting. Excellent Exhibits.
Cons: A little tricky getting to.

The Field Museum is an excellent and interesting Chicago attraction. Located next to Chicago's Soldier Field, the Field Museum offers an interesting look at history as well as special attractions that will amuse and delight your children.

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Pros: Situated in the heart of Chicago; relevant exhibits; reasonable membership prices.
Cons: None really.

The Field Museum 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60605-2496 (312) 922-9410 It’s funny, and sad I suppose, how one can live very near a culturally significant city like Chicago, IL and never avail oneself of all the city has ...

Pros: architecture, exhibits,value, fascinating
Cons: exhausting, evolutionist philosophy may offend some

I made my second visit to Field Museum recently and I have to say I was more mesmerized than ever. If it's your first visit, prepare to be agape at the shear size of the building. The marvelous architecture of the Greco-Roman structure gives you some...

Pros: See the actual costumes up close
Cons: tickets need to be purchased ahead of time

Do you know the difference between a Rancor and an Ewok? Did you wait in line to see The Phantom Menace? If so, you have to get to the Field Museum to see its newest traveling exhibit - Star Wars: The Magic of Myth. This exhibit will be at the Museum...

Pros: Every aspect of natural history you can think of.
Cons: Animals under glass are grotesque now.

The Field Museum is not located the southernmost in Chicago - that's the Science and Industry. It is the first museum one comes to on the drive north past Soldier Field on Lakeshore Drive. Has a dinosaur outdoors.

The immense lobby floor...

Pros: Awesome dinosaur display, Sue display, Special T-rex art exhibit, Special exhibits, interactive displays
Cons: McDonald's in the basement, McDonald's sponsorship of the Fossil Lab exhibition (watch out for the McRibs)

I have visited Chicago many times and love doing so.

After all, Chicago has the world's greatest baseball park with Wrigley Field, the world's best pizza, the world's greatest blues clubs, and the finest free festivals you can find anywhere....

Pros: Fascinating, stupendous exhibits, wonderful and inspirational, educational, and awesome.
Cons: None

Ah, the Field Museum of Natural History...the very mention of the name to yours truly conjures up images of the infinite variety of the natural world, the incredible variety in human cultures, questions about how life began, how nature works, history,...

Pros: Hands-on exhibits, well-thought displays
Cons: Can be a little overwhelming, displays with moving parts don't always work

The Field Museum just seems to get better and better every time I go. When I was small, the exhibits mostly consisted of case after case of labeled artifacts, bones, stuffed animals, minerals, and plant samples. Boy, have things changed! The museum...

Pros: Great displays - Sue
Cons: Some silly kids type displays

On our recent trip to Illinois, we spent a couple of days in Chicago.
While there, we visited the Field Museum and Sue.

Sue, for those who don't know, is the most complete skeleton of a T-rex to be discovered. After a long and strange...

Pros: Great exhibits
Cons: Can't see it all in one day

If you can only visit one attraction next time you're in Chicago, consider the Field Museum. From the outside, it really doesn't look that big. It is. You can't see everything in a day unless you really rush through it. Nor can I review everything here,...

Pros: exhibits, variety, helpful & knowledgeable staff, so much to see
Cons: a bit pricey, so much to see

This past weekend, my family got the chance to go to Chicago for the first time. We looked over all of our options for recreation and chose the Field Museum. We had limited time and wanted to do something that the whole family would enjoy.

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Pros: excellent exhibits, friendly personnel
Cons: too big to explore in just one day

The moment my taxi pulled up before the large structure that is the Field Museum in Chicago I knew I was going to love it inside. The mammoth marble building is beautiful. It immediately reminded me of my beloved Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both are...

Pros: nicely done exhibts well planned and thought out.
Cons: take at an even stride take time to absorb all details, extreme chance of brain overload.

Last year we had gone to Chicago for Labor day weekend, our first stop was the field museum, both my fiance and I are history fanatics, my museum experiances are few compared to his, I have been to the museum of natural history in Saint Paul Minnesota...

Pros: A free day and near public transportation.
Cons: I have been two times both, on the free day and it was crowed.

I hope this epinion will make a good visit better. If you want to see one of the special events, like the Dead Sea Scrolls go in the afternoon. Seems like everybody gets up early to the first person in line but after 1:30 or so there is no line to get...