Field Museum of Natural History

The Field Museum of Natural History is a museum in the city of Chicago.

Description
It is home to the famous Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed "Sue", which in Dead Beat is reanimated by Harry Dresden.

Details

 * Underneath the Field Museum runs a great ley line.

In the series
In Dead Beat, Harry follows some clues left by the ghosts that Mortimer Lindquist called forth to help—they spattered red dots on a map at locations where there was necromancer activity. The Field Museum is one those locations. Harry arrives to find an investigation going on for the murder of Dr. Bartlesby. Harry looks around and Listens. A police officer on the scene, Henry Rawlins, was asking the security guard questions though the detectives on he scene were supposed to do that, not Rawlins. Rawlins gave Harry a photo of Bartlesby's two assistants: Alicia Nelson and Li Xian. It turns out later that Alicia Nelson is really Corpsetaker, a necromancer.

Later in Dead Beat, Harry uses a GPS and the numbers Harry and Butters found in Bony Tony's corpse at the Morgue to locate the Word of Kemmler. They find the Word in the Field Museum taped under the platform that held Sue's skull. When Grevane enters with Liver Spots, Harry makes Butters leave, then he hastily skims through the book for Lasciel to read. Harry threatens to burn it if he doesn't let him leave. That's when he is suddenly covered by snakes, fangs tearing at him. Grevane takes the book and leaves Harry, handcuffed in Wizard manacles, in the hands of Liver Spots.

Liver Spots turns out to be Quintus Cassius, aka "Snakeboy" a former Denarian with a really major grudge against Harry. Plus, he's desperate for a Coin and wants Harry's coin of Lasciel. So he tortures Harry for the enjoyment, planning to dissect him alive. Butters and Mouse rescue Harry—Mouse kills him. His Death Curse is: "Die alone". Harry has an internal discussion with Lasciel and his Double and learns about the Darkhallow.

Then Harry re-animates Sue. Then he and Butters, who beats his Polka drums to keep Sue under command, set off to rescue the world from the Heirs of Kemmler through the streets of Chicago on an zombie T-Rex.

In Proven Guilty, Murphy told Harry about the police finding a dead body ravaged by an animal and three different blood types on the scene.