This page is here for historical purposes only (last updated July 12, 1994), for current information on The Harvard Museum of Natural History please refer to their website at http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
Tel: (617) 495-3045
Hours: Mon-Sat 9a.m.-4:30p.m. Sun 1-4:30 p.m.
Admission: adults $4; students and seniors (over 65) $3; children (3-13) $1.
Description:
4 museums under one roof: the Botanical Museum featuring the famous "glass flower" exihibit; the Museum of Comparative Zoology, with exhibits of dinosaurs skeletons, birds, beetles, fish, reptiles and mammals from around the world including extinct and vanishing species; the Peabody Museum oof Archaeology and Ethnology's exhibit of artifats from Mayan and American Southwest Indian cultures including an outstanding collection of katachinas (small ritual figures); and the Mineralogical and Geological Museum with one of the most important collections of mineral specimens.
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