Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

The Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East is a museum founded in 1889. It moved into its present location at 6 Divinity Avenue in , in 1903.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Also known as: “Harvard Museum für den Alten Nahen Osten”, “Harvard Museum für den Alten Orient”, “Harvard Semitic Museum”, “Harvard Semitisches Museum”, “Harvardské semitské muzeum”, “Musée du Proche-Orient ancien de Harvard”, “Musée du Proche-Orient antique de Havard”, “Museu Semita de Harvard”, “Semida Muzeo de Harvard”, “Semitic Museum”, “Семитологический музей Гарвардского университета”, and “ハーバード大学セム博物館”
  • Address: 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard Museum of Natural History.

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 is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in . is situated 480 feet west of Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

University
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, built in 1826, is the oldest building in the Harvard Divinity School at Harvard University. It is located at 14 Divinity Avenue, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baldwin and Mid-Cambridge.

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

Suburb
, 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.

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

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

Latitude
42.37809° or 42° 22′ 41″ north
Longitude
-71.11394° or 71° 6′ 50″ west
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Wheelchair access
yes
Open location code
87JC9VHP+6C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29932762
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Geo­Names ID
4950560
Wiki­data ID
Q2918448
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Russian—“Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف الساميات”
  • Armenian: “Սեմական թանգարան”
  • Chinese: “哈佛古代近東博物館”
  • Czech: “Harvardské muzeum starověkého Blízkého východu”
  • Esperanto: “Harvard Muzeo pri Antikva Proksima Oriento”
  • French: “Musée de l’Ancien Proche-Orient de Harvard”
  • French: “Semitic museum”
  • German: “Harvard-Museum für den Alten Orient”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון השמי”
  • Japanese: “セム博物館”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Semítico de Harvard”
  • Russian: “Гарвардский музей древнего Ближнего Востока”

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