Harvard Museum of Natural History

Harvard Museum of Natural History
Harvard Museum of Natural History is located in Boston
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Location within Boston
Harvard Museum of Natural History is located in Massachusetts
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Harvard Museum of Natural History (Massachusetts)
Harvard Museum of Natural History is located in the United States
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Harvard Museum of Natural History (the United States)
Established1998 (by merger of 3 earlier museums)
Location26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Coordinates42°22′42.29″N 71°6′55.99″W / 42.3784139°N 71.1155528°W / 42.3784139; -71.1155528
Collection size12,000
Visitors210,000 (2013)
OwnerHarvard University
Public transit accessHarvard (MBTA Red Line)
Websitehmnh.harvard.edu

The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It features 16 galleries with 12,000 specimens drawn from the collections of the University's three natural history research museums: the Harvard University Herbaria, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Harvard Mineralogical Museum.[1]

The museum is physically connected to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at 26 Oxford Street. One admission grants visitors access to both museums. In 2012, Harvard formed a new consortium, the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, whose members are the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, the Peabody Museum, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.[2]

  1. ^ Tucker, Aimee (31 March 2021). "Exploring the Harvard Museum of Natural History". New England Today.
  2. ^ Letteney, Timothy (2018-07-10). "Harvard Museums of Science & Culture fetes 300,000th visitor". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2022-06-26.