Press
The museum's Communications and Marketing staff is available to assist you by providing background information, coordinating on-site photography and videography requests, and providing images to the news media of exhibitions, lecturers, or special programs.
Media Contact
Tim Letteney
Director of Communications and Marketing
letten@hmsc.harvard.edu (617) 496-6557
Press Releases
Travel through time with new natural history collections on Google Arts & Culture
A new online experience by Google, the Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard in partnership with the Harvard Museum of Natural History and some of the most loved natural history institutions in the world, allows people to come face to face with...
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Partner with the Highland Street Foundation to help Massachusetts Families See More Summer
Harvard Museum of Natural History to provide free admission on August 5, 2016 (Cambridge, MA) June 13, 2016 – Harvard Museum of Natural History announced today that it will provide free admission on Friday, August 5, 2016 as part of Highland Street...
Glass Flowers Gallery to Open May 21, 2016 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cambridge, MA The Harvard Museum of Natural History announces the renovation and remodeling of its signature gallery exhibiting the internationally acclaimed Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, popularly called the Glass Flowers. The Glass...
New exhibition Marine Life in the Putnam Family Gallery opens Saturday, November 21 at Harvard Museum of Natural History
On Saturday, November 21, 2015, the new Marine Life in the Putnam Family Gallery will open at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The centerpiece of the new Marine Life exhibition – a floor to ceiling re-creation of life in New England’s coastal waters...
Islands: Evolving in Isolation Opens April 25 at Harvard Museum of Natural History
On Saturday, April 25, 2015, Islands: Evolving in Isolation will open at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. With bizarre woodpecker-like primates, dwarf humans, and flightless birds over nine feet tall, islands are havens for some of the most unusual...
Rare Stibnite Specimen Goes on Display at Harvard Museum of Natural History
On June 3rd, six strong men carried a stunning, nearly 400-pound specimen of stibnite crystal into the Harvard Museum of Natural History, where the new specimen is now on display on the third-floor landing. Visitors to the museum are intrigued to see one...
Birds of the World Gallery Reopens September 20 at Harvard Museum of Natural History
On Saturday, September 20, 2014, Birds of the World will reopen at the Harvard Museum of Natural History after a major renovation. Located around the high balcony encircling the Great Mammal Hall, the new gallery captures the stunning diversity of birds...
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Awarded $150,000 Grant by Institute of Museum and Library Services
Cambridge, MA—Today, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded $150,000 to the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC). The museums will use the grant funds to create an innovative learning experience entitled What’s in a Name...
Harvard Museums Launch New Annual Program Focused on Innovative Curatorial Practice
On April 30, the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture and the Harvard Art Museums will launch a new annual program including seminars and a public lecture focused on innovative curatorial practice. The collaboration will showcase internationally renowned...
Sea Creatures in Glass to open May 24 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
Sea Creatures in Glass to open May 24 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History Exhibit of Harvard's Blaschka glass animals includes models off display for decades. Many years before they were commissioned by Harvard University to make the “Glass Flowers,”...
Thoreau’s Maine Woods: A Journey in Photographs with Scot Miller, a new exhibition opens November 16 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s The Maine Woods, the Harvard Museum of Natural History offers an exhibition of finely crafted photographic prints by photographer Scot Miller, who has traversed the...
SUMMER SOLSTICE Night at the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
Celebrate the longest day of the year with live music, ice cream, hands-on activities, and free admission to all four of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture—the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, the Harvard Museum of Natural History...
Harvard Museum of Natural History reopens renovated Earth & Planetary Sciences gallery April 6
On Saturday, April 6, the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s former Mineral gallery will reopen with new exhibits which will address key geological themes including: plate tectonics, geologic time, rock types and formation, and planetary geology. The...
Time Trails at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
Time Trails Gallery Exploration Opening March 6 through December 6, 2013 Explore the concept of time in unexpected places at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and at the three other Harvard Museums of Science and Culture (Peabody Museum of Archaeology...
Hear the Sounds of Nature in New England Forests Exhibition at Harvard Museum of Natural History’s Zofnass Family Gallery
Hear the Sounds of Nature in New England Forests Exhibition at Harvard Museum of Natural History’s Zofnass Family Gallery. Where can you get to by T during the dreary winter, where you can hear the calls of meadowlarks, the croak of a frog, or the slap of...
Current Research in Evolutionary Biology
This video samples a wide range of contemporary researchers and research projects in evolutionary biology, as part of HMNH's Evolution exhibition. Cast: HMNH Tags: Harvard, evolution, research and evolutionary biology
New Director to Lead Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
Jane Pickering has been appointed executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture (HMSC), a new consortium of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) museums at Harvard University which includes the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The other...
Cockroaches Mini-Exhibit Opens September 29, 2012, at Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cockroaches Mini-Exhibit opens September 29, 2012 at Harvard Museum of Natural History A group of adaptable arthropods are among the oldest land-living animals on Earth. They thrived in lush coal forests 300 million years ago, survived multiple mass...
Harvard Museum of Natural History Admission Rates Increase September 1, 2012
Effective September 1, 2012, the admission price at the Harvard Museum of Natural History will increase. The new admission rates are: adults, $12; seniors (65 and over) and college students, $10; and youth (3-18 years old), $8. Admission is free for...
Renovated Fishes Exhibition Reopens June 2 at Harvard Museum of Natural History
The historic Fishes Exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge reopens to the public on June 2, 2012 after a major makeover. Museum-goers may explore the diversity of fishes from gars to groupers and stonefishes to seahorses. The...