Exhibitions in Chicago

January 2026

January 2026 at a glance: 0 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 3 more were on view across the city.

Museum exhibitions featuring two scientists. On the left is a desk and bookshelves, with multimedia panels. On the right, a large video screen and a canoe.

Detail of a panel from Raqib Shaw's monumental painting Paradise Lost

A section of a museum exhibition, with large cut-outs of trees and plants, and specimens in display cases.

Was on view in January

The Changing Face of Scienceto 18 Oct
Field Museum
A rotating Comer Gallery series profiling Field Museum scientists — currently Lesley de Souza and Sara Ruane — following their research journeys, passions and personalities.
Raqib Shaw: Paradise Lostto 15 Nov
Art Institute of Chicago
A 21-panel painting over 100 feet wide carries viewers from the nocturnal solitude of the artist's Kashmiri childhood through the frenzy of the Western art world to a fragile, renewed dawn.
After the Age of Dinosaursto 3 Jan
Field Museum
What happened once the dinosaurs were gone: plants and animals reshaped Earth into a lush tropical world of new giants and tiny survivors, told through fossils, touchable casts and immersive media.

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