A day in Chicago's world-famous museums!

Spend a Day on the Museum Campus in Chicago and explore Chicago's Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, and Adler Planetarium all in one day!

You'll be transported to the museum campus with admission to all three attractions.

This tour includes pickups from downtown and near north Chicago hotels.

Return transportation for drop-off at those same hotels is also available at 5:30 pm only.

Field Museum

Operating Hours - 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (last admission at 4:00 pm)

The Field Museum was incorporated in the State of Illinois on September 16, 1893 as the Columbian Museum of Chicago with its purpose the "accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of objects illustrating art, archaeology, science and history." In 1905, the Museum's name was changed to Field Museum of Natural History to honor the Museum's first major benefactor, Marshall Field, and to better reflect its focus on the natural sciences. In 1921 the Museum moved from its original location in Jackson Park to its present site on Chicago Park District property near downtown where it is part of a lakefront Museum Campus that includes the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium. These three institutions are regarded as among the finest of their kind in the world and together attract more visits annually than any comparable site in Chicago.

The museum houses a number of permanent, temporary, and traveling exhibits.

Permanent Exhibit: The Ancient Americas - Step into the windswept world of Ice-Age mammoth hunters. Walk through a replica of an 800-year-old pueblo dwelling and imagine your entire family cooking, eating, and sleeping in one small room. Explore the Aztec empire and its island capital, Tenochtitlan, a city of more than 200,000 people and an extraordinary feat of engineering for any era. Discover what Field Museum scientists and others have learned about the Americans who lived here before us, and how it?s changing nearly everything we thought we knew!

Shedd Aquarium

Operating Hours - 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Strap a mask and flippers on your imagination and chart a course to the Shedd Aquarium. Have you ever gotten eye-to-eye with a dolphin? Or met a penguin on a stroll to the South Pole? Or immersed yourself in an Amazon flooded forest? At Shedd, it's all possible!

At the Oceanarium, you'll be immersed in the vibrant coastal ecosystem of beluga whales, Pacific white-sided dolphins, sea otters and sea lions. You'll also find a host of fishes and invertebrates that make their homes where freshwater flows into the ocean or where tides turn seascapes to landscapes and back again each day. Discover how animals are linked to each other, their homes, and you.

Kids have a place at Shedd that they can call their own - the Polar Play Zone. It's cool as ice and twice as nice! The penguins think so, too. Play! Splash! Pretend! What would you like to be? A sleek sliding penguin? A deep-sea explorer? How about both? In Polar Play Zone, you can slip into a penguin suit and try being a bird in the Icy South play area. From there, head to the Icy North to explore the belugas' Arctic waters in a kid-sized submarine. Don't forget to shake hands - or is it arms - with colorful sea stars in the touch pools. In Polar Play Zone, you'll learn about polar opposites - big and small, fast and slow, shallow and deep, even north and south - while you play.

Adler Planetarium

Operating Hours - 9:30 am to 6:00 pm

The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum was founded in 1930 by Chicago businessman and philanthropist, Max Adler. It is the United States' first planetarium, and features two full-size theaters -- the Sky Theater, which has a traditional Zeiss projector, and the StarRider Theater, which is a full "virtual reality" experience!

The Astronomy Museum contains one of the most important antique astronomy scientific instrument collections in the world.

Exhibits:
~Star Rider Theater Virtual Reality Environment
~Sky Theater
~Atwood Sphere
~Bringing The Heavens To Earth
~CyberSpace
~From The Night Sky To The Big Bang
~Milky Way Galaxy
~Our Solar System
~Shoot for the Moon
~Universe In Your Hands
~Doane Observatory

No refunds for any unused tickets or transportation to and from the Museum Campus.

At 5:30 pm, passengers must meet at the Main Entrance of The Field Museum for hotel returns. Return service is not provided after this time.

This tour is not operated on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day.

This tour includes pickup from downtown Chicago hotels. Children ages 4 and under are free. Please order online or call 888-881-3284 to order or for more information.