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Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries Exhibition Unlocks Treasures from Harvard’s Collections

June 24, 2026

Open June 27, 2026, through April 2027 in the Harvard Museum of Natural History Cambridge, Mass., June 24, 2026— In the new exhibition Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries , the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) brings some of Harvard’s most...

Harvard Museum of Natural History Admission Rates Increase July 1, 2026

June 09, 2026

Effective July 1, 2026, admission prices at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology will increase. Museum admission rates were last updated in September 2018. The new general admission rates will be: Adults...

Velvet Worms: A Fierce Hunter with a Secret Weapon Exhibit Opens at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

October 22, 2025

These unlikely predators make their home in the Arthropod Gallery on October 24, 2025 Cambridge, Mass., October 22, 2025—Imagine a land-dwelling creature that resembles a caterpillar hunting with a glue gun. Meet the velvet worm, neither a worm nor a...

Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination Exhibition Opens at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on June 29

June 18, 2024

The exhibition dives into the mystery and lore behind some of the ocean’s most fascinating creatures CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 18, 2024—The idea of sea monsters has captivated us for centuries. The terrifying Kraken, the giant squid in Jules Verne’s Twenty...

New in the Glass Flowers gallery: The Blaschkas at the Microscope: Lessons in Botany

April 16, 2024

The special new exhibit in the Glass Flowers Gallery opens in the Harvard Museum of Natural History on Apr 20, 2024 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 16, 2024—The famous Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (the Glass Flowers) includes a series of...

Ants and Termites: Nature’s Super Organisms opens in the Harvard Museum of Natural History Arthropods gallery

March 15, 2024

The new gallery explores these superorganisms’ intersecting history, biology, and behavior CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 15, 2024— Arthropods: Creatures That Rule is a popular gallery in the Harvard Museum of Natural History that draws on Harvard research to...

Swimming with Sharks: A Deep Dive into Shark Biology and Behavior reveals the mysterious lives of sharks in the wild

November 03, 2022

The exhibition opens November 12 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 3, 2022—Nearly half a billion years ago, the first ancestors of a remarkable group of fishes exploded from the ocean’s tree of life, forever transforming...

Henry David Thoreau’s vast botanical collection inspires the new exhibition In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss

April 20, 2022

The visually compelling and immersive exhibition opens May 14 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 20, 2022—A close reflection on Henry David Thoreau’s legacy brings into sharper focus his deep commitment to environmental...

The Harvard Museum of Natural History Picks Seasonal “Fruits in Decay” as the New Focus of the Glass Flowers Gallery

August 07, 2019

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., August 7, 2019 — Imagine an orchard, lush and bursting with ripe fruit in the sweltering summer sun. Not all of the fruit weighing down the branches and vines will be fit to consume. Some strawberries will dampen and shrivel with mold...

The Harvard Museum of Natural History Secures a Lunar Sample from NASA for Cosmic Origins Exhibition

July 20, 2019

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 20, 2019 — On this day in 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped down from the Apollo lunar lander and became the first human to make direct contact with a celestial body : Earth’s Moon. The Apollo 11 engineering and flight team had prepared...

The Harvard Museum of Natural History Presents a New Climate Change Exhibit Exploring the Global Impact of the Warming Climate on the Planet

January 31, 2019

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January 31— The Harvard Museum of Natural History announces the new Climate Change exhibit that draws on the latest scientific information about our warming climate, the global and local consequences, and how to both reduce the fossil...

The Rockefeller Beetles Exhibit Opens Saturday, October 20, 2018 at Harvard Museum of Natural History

September 10, 2018

“The collection is superb, worldwide, and the biggest collection ever donated to Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology as far as we know,” said the MCZ’s entomology curator Brian D. Farrell. Over the span of 90 years, banker and...