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Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA

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Harvard Museum of Natural History

Harvard Museum of Natural History is a museum in Cambridge, MA, part of the Boston guide. Cost: under $25.

26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 · Cambridge, MA

Why you should go…

Harvard's most-visited museum is best known for the Ware Collection of Glass Flowers, thousands of astonishingly lifelike botanical models handcrafted by the Blaschka family over five decades. Beyond them wait the Great Mammal Hall's hanging whale skeletons, a 42-foot Kronosaurus, glittering mineral galleries, and dioramas of New England wildlife. One ticket also admits you to the adjoining Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and Massachusetts residents get free windows on Sundays and Wednesday afternoons. Steps from Harvard Yard.

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