Field Museum of Natural History

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One of Chicago's most popular museums for both adults and children alike is The Field Museum of Natural History. Right on Lake Shore Drive, with beautiful views to Lake Michigan, the museum is part of what locals refer to as the Museum Campus, where a number of popular attractions and landmarks are all located within a short walk of each other, as well as close to the lake's beach and popular nearby parks.

While nowhere near as huge as The Natural History Museum in New York, The Field Museum of Natural History is nonetheless one of the country's largest and most extensive natural history museums. Especially exciting for the youngsters visiting is the chance to see the gigantic Tyrannosaurus Rex named Sue, whose skeleton is actually the most extensive one known in the whole world. There is also a huge number of other dinosaurs over in the permanent Evolving Planet exhibit.

The museum has a number of permanent exhibits, and the occasional special or traveling exhibition as well. Among the permanent collection are an extensive taxidermy collection, which includes quite a few large and exotic animals, such as two African elephants. There are also a great number of permanent exhibits dedicated to anthropological purposes, including ones for Tibet, The Pacific Northwest, ancient Egypt, and local indigenous cultures in the USA, too.

The Field Museum of Natural History is also a popular spot for researchers thanks to the library and public archives, which offers thousands upon thousands of volumes of research on ornithology, anthropology, archaeology, and biology.

Visitors can enjoy all of the eye-widening things The Field Museum of Natural History has to offer them from nine in the morning until five in the afternoon, seven days of the week. The museum is also open every day of the year except for Christmas.

Due to its central location on Lake Shore Drive, a number of hotels are close by, including The Best Western Grant Park, The Essex Inn Chicago, The Hilton Chicago, and the Ramada Inn.

For more information on The Field Museum of Natural History: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Museum_of_Natural_History

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