Field Museum of Natural History

1200 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL, 60605
312-922-9410

URL : http://www.fmnh.org

overview : The Field Museum was founded to house the biological and anthropological collections assembled for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. These objects form the core of the Museum's collections which have grown through world-wide expeditions, exchange, purchase, and gifts to more than twenty million specimens.

collections : The Museum's curatorial and scientific staff in the departments of Anthropology, Biology, Geology, and Zoology conducts basic research in the fields of systematic biology and anthropology

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