Field Museum
Natural History · Chicago, Illinois
One of the largest natural history museums in the world, founded in 1893 to keep the biological and anthropological collections assembled for the World's Columbian Exposition and housed since 1921 in a white marble hall on the lakefront. It holds SUE, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found, and roughly forty million specimens of which the public sees a fraction.
1400 South DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60605, United States
Generally daily 9 AM - 5 PM, last admission 4 PM. Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.