Exhibitions

Rubies

Rubies is a new, intimate Exhibit Spotlight featuring stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery. Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its...

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow’s Discoveries

College Group Visits

With 12,000 specimens on display, your students have the opportunity to explore the museum and develop focused connections with your curriculum. You can visit as a group or purchase passes in advance for your students to visit on their own.

Making the Invisible Visible: Digitizing Invertebrates on Microscope Slides

Zoom in to this new, smaller-scale exhibit in the Arthropods Gallery to discover an unseen world! Making the Invisible Visible showcases the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s collections of glass microscope slides. The data will be made available to the...

Velvet Worms: A Fierce Hunter with a Secret Weapon

Imagine an animal that resembles a caterpillar hunting with a glue gun. Velvet Worms: A Fierce Hunter with a Secret Weapon is a smaller-scale exhibit in the Arthropods Gallery that shines a light on this little-known creature in a category of its own...

Our Birds: Through a Lens of Hope

A stunning new photographic exhibition in the museum lobby captures North American bird life. The photographs come from Gonzalo Giribet, Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and Director of the Museum of...

Accessibility

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is dedicated to accessibility for all visitors.

Emeralds

Closing May 10, 2026 Emeralds is a new, intimate collection of stunning crystals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery. Highly coveted by a wide variety of cultures, emeralds have played a significant role in shaping...

From the Hands of the Makers

ASTC Passport Program Policies

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is pleased to participate in ASTC’s Passport Program and to welcome visitors from other participating institutions. At the HMNH, the travel benefit is available to the cardholder from a participating institution plus...

Exhibit Videos

Save With CityPASS®

Spend less. Experience More. Sightseeing in Boston? Bundle Museum admission with 3 other top Boston attractions and save up to 45% with Boston CityPASS® tickets. Visit the attractions at your own pace, in any order over 9 days. Boston CityPASS® Includes...