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Harvard Museum of Natural History

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in .
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  • Opening hours: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: natural history museum in Massachusetts
  • Also known as: “Harvard University Museums of Natural History”
  • Address: MA
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard Mineralogical Museum.

Museum
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The is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in , United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas.

Museum
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The Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard, or the , is located on the campus of Harvard University in .

Library
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is Harvard Library's primary source for all subfields of anthropology and archaeology. With over 250,000 volumes, Tozzer is home to one of the largest and most comprehensive anthropology and archaeology collections worldwide.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baldwin and Old Cambridge Historic District.

Neighborhood
, formerly known as Agassiz and also called Harvard North, Area 8 or Agassiz/Baldwin, is one of the thirteen neighborhoods of , United States.

Neighborhood
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The is a historic district encompassing a residential neighborhood of that dates to colonial times.

Neighborhood
, also known as "Area 6", is a neighborhood of . It is bounded by Massachusetts Avenue on the south and west, Prospect Street on the east, and Hampshire Street, the border, Kirkland Street, Quincy Street, and Cambridge Street on the north.

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Latitude
42.37847° or 42° 22′ 43″ north
Longitude
-71.11565° or 71° 6′ 56″ west
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Operator
Harvard University
Open location code
87JC9VHM+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 367781130
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
4939041
Wiki­data ID
Q2001855
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Harvard Museum of Natural History” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Հարվարդի բնագիտության պատմության թանգարան”
  • Chinese: “哈佛自然历史博物馆”
  • Chinese: “哈佛自然史博物館”
  • Dutch: “Harvard Museum of Natural History”
  • Esperanto: “Harvard Muzeo pri Natura Historio”
  • German: “Harvard Museum of Natural History”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון הטבע של אוניברסיטת הרווארד”
  • Japanese: “ハーバード大学自然史博物館”
  • Russian: “Гарвардский музей естественной истории”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Historia Natural de Harvard”
  • Turkish: “Harvard Doğa Tarihi Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Гарвардський музей природної історії”

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