Exhibitions
Africa
Visitors will see impressive mounted specimens of African wildlife...
Arthropods: Creatures That Rule
Featuring hands-on activities, dramatic specimen displays, colorful video and graphics, and even live animals, this exhibition draws on the latest...
Asia
This gallery features mounted wildlife specimens from Asia. It includes a rare Indian rhinoceros, Siberian and Bengal tigers, and a cheetah.
Birds of the World
Boasting over 10,000 species, birds are the most diverse land vertebrates on the planet, surpassing the biological diversity of...
Cenozoic Mammals
The Cenozoic Era, also known as the Age of Mammals, was marked by the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Central and South America
This gallery features mounted wildlife specimens from South America, including a jaguar, tapir, sloth, and giant armadillo...
Climate Change
Explore the past, present, and future of climate, engage with the new simulation globe, consider the facts, and draw your own conclusions.
Earth & Planetary Sciences
This gallery displays thousands of rare minerals and sparkling gemstones in both rough and cut examples...
Evolution
This exhibit invites visitors to examine the fossil, anatomical, and genetic evidence that all life is connected through a shared evolutionary history.
Fruits in Decay
Fruits in Decay is a new special exhibit in the Glass Flowers gallery that explores blight, rot, and other diseases on summer fruits.
Glass Flowers
One of the museum’s most famous treasures is the internationally acclaimed Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass...
Great Mammal Hall
The Great Mammal Hall, a two-story gallery, some 60 feet long by 40 feet wide, is the most dramatic gallery in the museum.
Lily Simonson: Painting the Deep
This exhibit presents six original mural-sized paintings that literally glow with luminescent pigments and together create an immersive visual experience, giving form to a hidden alien universe.
Marine Life
This exhibit will immerse visitors in the astounding diversity and dynamic interplay among animals in marine communities just off local shores.
Microbial Life
This exhibit takes visitors on a journey into this fascinating, invisible realm, where bacteria and other microbes bustle about their lives, interacting with one another and with organisms of all sizes in every corner of the globe.
New England Forests
New England Forests in the Zofnass Family Gallery is a multi-media exhibition that explores the natural history and ecology of our regional forests...
Orb-Weavers
This special exhibit in the Arthropods Gallery that will examine the evolution of the orb web and explore how capture strategies used by its arachnid builders have shaped web design.
The Rockefeller Beetles
The Rockefeller Beetles will feature hundreds of specimens from Rockefeller’s collection and recount the story of a man whose childhood pursuit grew into a lifelong passion.
Romer Hall of Vertebrate Paleontology
This exhibition showcases the evolutionary history of vertebrates, including spectacularly preserved fishes, dinosaurs, and early mammals.
Sea Creatures in Glass
Renowned for their beauty and exacting detail, the Blaschka invertebrate models were commissioned by universities and museums...
Online Exhibitions
What's in a Name?
This exhibit includes four interactive kiosks embedded into existing exhibits. Explore how different organisms are named. Learn more on the What's in a Name website and download the free e-book.
Islands: Evolving in Isolation
This online exhibit is an exploration of evolution on islands that highlights the latest research and discoveries made by Harvard scientists.
