Museums
Local GemHarvard Museum of Natural History
Under $25Home of the famous Glass Flowers, plus whale skeletons, a 42-foot Kronosaurus, and Harvard's great hall of mammals, steps from Harvard Yard.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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MuseumsHistory BuffRainy-Day Pick
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Explore Harvard's anthropology museum, from its Hall of the North American Indian to casts of Central American monuments, on one ticket with natural history.
11 Divinity Ave · Cambridge, MA
About Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
George Peabody's gift founded this Harvard museum in 1866, and it is one of the oldest and largest museums of anthropology. The collection counts over 1.2 million objects and about 500,000 photographs, and the permanent Hall of the North American Indian looks at 19th-century Indigenous objects. One $20 adult ticket also covers the Harvard Museum of Natural History next door. Massachusetts residents get in free on Sunday mornings until noon and Wednesdays from 3 to 5 p.m.
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