Field Museum

Field Museum of Natural History

Home of SUE, the most complete T. rex ever found

Hours

Daily 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm; closed Thanksgiving and Christmas (per third-party guides)

Tickets

Basic admission from about $30 per adult, more with special exhibits (third-party guides); book at fieldmuseum.org

Address

1400 S DuSable Lake Shore Dr, on the lakefront Museum Campus next to the Shedd and the Adler

Walk into the marble-columned main hall and Máximo, a long-necked titanosaur cast 37 metres long, is craning toward the ceiling; it barely fits in one photo. Upstairs, at the end of the evolution galleries, SUE, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found, has a room of her own, real bones and teeth the size of bananas. Downstairs there's an ancient Egyptian tomb chamber rebuilt stone by stone, with mummies, and once you add the animal dioramas the day disappears.