• $500,000Active Strategy

  2013 (Duration 5 years)

  Arts & Culture in Chicago

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Field Museum is one of Chicago's world class institutions. It is both an educational institution with an active exhibition and public education program and an academic institution with more than 100 years of experience in conducting research and fieldwork. The Field Museum's permanent and temporary exhibitions occupy about 300,000 square feet. Its collection contains over 25 million biological and anthropological objects. More than 1.3 million people visit the Museum annually, including 400,000 students and 5,000 teachers. The exhibitions and educational programs are informed by research from the Museum's 28 tenured scientists and others who represent a broad range of disciplines.

• $150,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 2 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Environment, Culture, and Conservation Program of the Field Museum of Chicago integrates biological inventory and cultural preservation objectives in the Tropical Andes through an "assets-based conservation" process. The project will apply this approach in indigenous territories strategically located near Ampiyacu-Apayacu and Sierra de Divisor conservation landscapes in Northeastern Peru. Quality of Life plans will use cultural values, local knowledge and social and organizational structures to establish community conserved areas and heighten the chance that traditional livelihoods will survive outside pressures.

• $350,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To involve local communities in conserving critical habitats that lack official protection and to build Malagasy capacity for conservation biology (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Field Museum $1,000,000 between 2010 and 2013.