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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Effective September 4, 2018, the admission price at the Harvard Museum of Natural History will increase. The new admission rates are: adults, $15; seniors (65 and over), $13; college students and youth (3-18 years old), $10. Rates for groups of ten or...