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address:26 Oxford Street  Cambridge, MA 02138 contact:Blue Magruder phone:617-495-3045 website:Harvard Museum of Natural History email: tags:museum, cambridge, animals, dinosaurs, Harvard Museum of Natural History, photography

Explorers Welcome!

Explore 12,000 specimens drawn from Harvard’s vast research collections at the University's most visited museum -- dinosaurs, meteorites, gemstones, and hundreds of animals around the globe.  Get close to the world’s only mounted Kronosaurus, a 42 ft-long marine reptile; one of the first Triceratops ever discovered; a 1,642 lb. amethyst geode; whale skeletons.  Don’t miss the world famous exhibit of 3,000 ‘Glass Flowers’, amazingly realistic models of plants, fruits and flowers created by father-son glass artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka from 1886-1936.You won’t believe they’re not real.

The museum is on the Harvard University campus, just a short, 7-10 minute walk through historic Harvard Yard from the Harvard Square MBTA Red Line ‘T’ station.Open daily, 9 am – 5 pm, 361 days/year. Handicapped accessible.

Explore www.hmnh.harvard.edu for changing exhibitions, dozens of lectures, events, classes for all ages, year round.

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