Museums
When paleontology meets Pokémon, at the Field Museum
Pokémon fossils and real fossils are displayed side-by-side in a new exhibit at the Field...
KITT replica car gets New York City speeding ticket while at Volo Museum: ‘It’s got to be a joke’
A replica of KITT, a car featured in "Knight Rider" parked and on display at...
Today in Chicago History: Sue the T. rex unveiled at the Field Museum
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 17, according...
Column: 20 years ago, UChicago’s Jacqueline Stewart went hunting for home movies. She found pure Chicago history.
Returning to UChicago after the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, Jacqueline Stewart celebrates a singular...
Chicago Board of Trade Building museum pays homage to city’s trading history, immortalized in movies like ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’
The new museum, which opens Tuesday, is the latest step in an effort to revive...
Column: The new book ‘Sick and Dirty’ examines the not-so-hidden queerness of classic Hollywood
In "Sick and Dirty," author Michael Koresky takes a clear-eyed look at golden age Hollywood's...
‘Winging It’ exhibit at Newberry Library shows humanity’s relationship to birds — dead and alive
Illinois' nearly extinct prairie chicken and Chicago's famous piping plovers, Monty and Rose, are among...
Newborn Brookfield Zoo dolphin calf dies suddenly
A bottlenose dolphin born recently at Brookfield Zoo Chicago died late Wednesday. The zoo said...
Summer 2025 in Chicago: All you need to know for movies, concerts, food festivals and more
Here are all of the Tribune's summer 2025 arts, entertainment and food guides.
At this museum, no one will shush you, and you can touch the objects
The V&A is Britain’s national museum of design, performance and applied arts, and the storehouse...
Art for summer 2025: Top 10 exhibitions from Impressionists to protest art
The Art Institute has a big summer show on Gustave Caillebotte, the Intuit Art Museum...
Chicago’s museums for summer 2025: ‘Reptiles’ at the Field, brews at the zoos and ‘Spider-Man’ the exhibit
Experiences, not exhibitions, are coaxing folks off their couches and into cultural institutions. Here are...
Spider-Man spins a complicated web. This new exhibit at Griffin MSI is just for fun.
“Marvel’s Spider-Man: Beyond Amazing — The Exhibit” at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry...