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Field Museum, a museum in Illinois
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Field Museum, a museum in Illinois
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Field Museum, a museum in Illinois
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Field Museum, a museum in Illinois
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Field Museum is a museum in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 185 m. Mount Trashmore stands 204 m to the north-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Sue the Dinosaur, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Historic Route 66 passes 0.8 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH; also known as the Field Museum) is a private–public natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, as well as its extensive scientific specimen and artifact collections. A private nonprofit institution, the museum operates in close partnership with the municipal government agency Chicago Park District, which owns the land and building. The museum is run by a private Board of Trustees and funded through a combination of ticket sales, memberships, donations, endowments, and grants, along with some public funding for specific programs or maintenance. The permanent exhibitions, which attract up to 2 million visitors annually, include fossils, current cultures from around the world, and interactive programming demonstrating today's urgent conservation needs. The museum is named in honor of its first major benefactor, Marshall Field, the department-store magnate. The museum and its collections originated from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the artifacts displayed at the fair. The museum maintains a temporary exhibition program of traveling shows, as well as in-house produced topical exhibitions. The professional staff maintains collections of over 24 million specimens and objects that provide the basis for the museum's scientific-research programs. These collections include the full range of existing biodiversity, gemstones, meteorites, fossils, and extensive anthropological collections and cultural artifacts from around the globe. The museum's library, which contains over 275,000 books, journals, and photo archives focused on biological systematics, evolutionary biology, geology, archaeology, ethnology and material culture, supports the museum's academic-research faculty and exhibit development. The academic faculty and scientific staff engage in field expeditions, in biodiversity and cultural research on every continent, in local and foreign student training, and in stewardship of the rich specimen and artifact collections. They work in close collaboration with public programming exhibitions and education initiatives.

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Dates from 1893-09-16.

Wikidata Q1122595, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
185 m
Visiting

What to expect

Fee
Yes
Step-free access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.86623, -87.61667

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Historic sites
  • Special Olympics Flame of Hope Monument: 0.1 mi
  • Tribute to Freedom: 0.1 mi
  • Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument: 0.2 mi
  • City Water Tunnel Shaft: 0.2 mi
  • CPD K9 & Equine Memorial Plaza: 0.3 mi
Gardens
  • Welcome Garden: 0.1 mi
  • The Garden: 0.5 mi
  • South Rose Garden: 0.5 mi
  • Daphne Garden: 0.6 mi
  • Congress Triangle Garden: 0.8 mi
Attractions
  • Sea Lion: 0.2 mi
  • Penguins: 0.2 mi
  • Beluga: 0.2 mi
  • Sea Otter: 0.2 mi
  • Dolphin: 0.2 mi
Parks
  • Daniel Webster Park: 0.3 mi
  • Mark Twain Park: 0.4 mi
  • Coliseum Park: 0.6 mi
  • Battle of Fort Dearborn Park: 0.6 mi
  • South President's Court: 0.6 mi
Museums
Nature reserves
Picnic sites
  • Picnic Grove C: 1.1 mi
  • Picnic Grove B: 1.2 mi
  • Lincoln Park - Grove 2: 3.5 mi
  • Lincoln Park - Grove 3: 3.5 mi
  • Lincoln Park - Grove 4: 3.7 mi
Beaches: 58
Peaks: 18
  • Soldier Field Sledding Hill: 0.6 mi
  • Mount Bridgeport: 2.3 mi
  • Obama Center Sled Hill: 5.9 mi
  • Horner Park Hill: 7.7 mi
  • Players Hill: 7.8 mi
Waterfalls: 4
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 9.1 mi
Cliffs: 1
Rest areas: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Field Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount TrashmoreNNW 337°204 m11.8 mi
Chanute HillSE 133°195 m24.9 mi
Players HillW 275°187 m7.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1619:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3816:23

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262938485868747467544331

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Northerly IS, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/24825537

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