
Field Museum
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Field Museum
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Registered address
75 Remittance Drive Suite # 1014 60675 Chicago IL
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Managing director(s)
Aimee Willetts
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About the activity provider
The Field Museum fuels a journey of discovery across time to enable solutions for a brighter future rich in nature and culture. The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum maintains its status as a premier natural-history museum through the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, as well as due to its extensive scientific-specimen and artifact collections. The diverse, high-quality permanent exhibitions, which attract up to two million visitors annually, range from the earliest fossils to past and current cultures from around the world to interactive programming demonstrating today's urgent conservation needs. The museum is named in honor of its first major benefactor, the department-store magnate Marshall Field. The museum and its collections originated from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and the artifacts displayed at the fair