5 Facts About The Museum

1. The Museum is the museum's Chief Curiosity Correspondent, a position custom built to Graslie's skills and her already existing YouTube channel that moved from Missoula, Montana to Chicago, Illinois to link with the Field Museum's expanded collections.

2. The Museum is situated in a 17-acre city park known as "Theodore Roosevelt Park".

3. The Museum had worked in partnership with the TEACCH Autism Program at UNC-Chapel Hill and a committee of folks connected to autism to implement a variety of initiatives to help people on the spectrum and their families navigate the museum.

4. In 1951, the first wing of the new The Museum officially opened, making the Museum the first to embrace all the sciences under one roof.

5. The Museum was used in a 1986 McDonald's commercial entitled "Field Trip".