Exhibitions

Climate Change: Our Global Experiment

Developed in collaboration with the Harvard University Center for the Environment, Climate Change: Our Global Experiment will help you separate truth from spin and provide a basis for making informed decisions affecting the future of our planet. The...

Mollusks: Shelled Masters of the Marine Realm

Through September 8, 2015 Mollusks explores the amazing diversity and history of mollusks–snails, clams, squid, and other invertebrates–that comprise almost a quarter of all known marine species. Featuring the research of Professor Gonzalo Giribet...

Thoreau's Maine Woods: A Journey in Photographs with Scot Miller

Through February 22, 2015 In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s The Maine Woods, this exhibition features the stunning photographs of Scot Miller, who has traversed the state of Maine for years, retracing...

Final Flight: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon

Final Flight: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon marks the 100th anniversary of the death of the last passenger pigeon, a species that once filled North America’s skies by the billions. In this small exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History...

Romer Hall of Vertebrate Paleontology

This exhibition showcases the evolutionary history of vertebrates, including spectacularly preserved fishes, dinosaurs, and diminutive early mammals. Highlights include the world’s only mounted Kronosaurus, a 42-foot-long prehistoric marine reptile, one...

Fishes Gallery

Through September 2015 This gallery explores the diversity of fishes from gars to groupers and stonefishes to seahorses. Visitors are invited to rediscover some iconic specimens, including the hammerhead and mako sharks, the massive bluefin tuna, and the...

Evolution

View animals and plants that sparked Darwin’s theory of evolution, dramatic displays of diversity within species, and computer simulations that demonstrate how natural selection acts. See a model of the 375-million-year-old fossilized remains of Tiktaalik...

Africa Gallery

Visitors can see impressive mounted specimens of African wildlife collected over a century ago, including a hippopotamus, lion, ostrich, hyena, gorilla, and a variety of rare animals from the island of Madagascar. An interactive video display highlights...

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 scientific research to explore arthropods’ extraordinary evolutionary success and their impact on our lives...

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, with an arrangement of specimens that includes a full-sized giraffe, a bison, a narwhal, and three whale skeletons suspended from...

Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery

Step inside the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s vibrant Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery. The expansive space displays thousands of rare minerals and sparkling gemstones, including a stunning new display of Maine’s most famous mineral, tourmaline...

Glass Flowers: The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants

Come visit one of the Harvard's most famous treasures, the acclaimed Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, the Glass Flowers This unique collection of over 4,000 models was created by glass artisans Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka.