Field Museum of Natural History

The Field Museum will develop and implement Straight From The Field, a series of small visitor-centered, science-focused exhibitions. Six new exhibitions, each open a minimum of six months in a temporary exhibition gallery, will be produced over a three-year period, beginning in August 2012, and running through July 2015. These exhibits will all feature current research projects of Field Museum anthropologists, botanists, geologists, and zoologists, to give visitors the inside story on new discoveries in Field Museum laboratories and sites around the world. The intended audience is teenagers and young adults, who are traditionally a challenging audience for natural history museums. The project’s goal is to help visitors create meaningful personal connections to the natural sciences - to move from being passive recipient to active participant - by responding to, adding to, personalizing, and sharing the exhibition’s content.