 Harvard’s two finest museums the Peabody and Natural History Museum are located back to back in the same building and offer joint admission.
The Natural History and Peabody museums boast an impressive range of exhibitions outlining various studies conducted at Harvard University with some remarkable artefacts and exhibits.
The Natural History Museum takes visitors back through the ages to the origins of life with fossils and bones from prehistoric beasts such as the Harvard Mastodon and Pliosaur from Australia and a collection of extinct species from the Dodo to the Great Auk and the American Bison. There is also a huge geological collection, great for healing stones enthusiasts, a creepy crawly section with all sorts of bugs, spiders and scorpions. The museum also houses a breathtakingly exquisite collection of some 3,000 lifelike glass models of flowers and plants made by German glassmakers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka from 1886 to 1936.
 The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, to give its full title, focuses on anthropological studies undertaken from Harvard and is dedicated to the preservation, interpretation and exhibition of indigenous artefacts. The museum features Native American artefacts from the famous Lewis & Clarke expedition and includes a warriors tunic adorned with scalps from his victories, tools for agriculture, hunting and warfare, clothes, totem poles, ceremonial masks, taken from tribes in New England, Pueblo Indians, Plains Indians, Aleutian & Inuit Indians.
The museums have a calendar of events and exhibitions throughout the year.
Location:
Oxford Street and Divinity Avenue, Cambridge. Take the Red Line to Harvard Square.
Opening Times:
Open daily from 9am-5pm
Closed New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Admission:
Adults - $9
Children - $6
Concessions - $7
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