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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.
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,
gems,
meteorites,
fossils,
and
rich
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.
Excerpt
from
Wikipedia
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