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 Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1903.Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Cambridge, MA, USA
- Also known as: “Harvard Semitic Museum”
- Address: 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard–Yenching Library.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Museum
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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.
Harvard–Yenching Library
Library
Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
The Harvard–Yenching Library is the primary location for East Asia-related collections at Harvard Library at Harvard University. In addition to East Asian languages, it houses collections in European languages and Southeast Asian language.
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Museum of Natural History is situated 480 feet west of Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Baldwin and Mid-Cambridge.
Baldwin
Neighborhood
Baldwin, formerly known as Agassiz and also called Harvard North, Area 8 or Agassiz/Baldwin, is one of the thirteen neighborhoods of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Mid-Cambridge
Neighborhood
Mid-Cambridge, also known as "Area 6", is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is bounded by Massachusetts Avenue on the south and west, Prospect Street on the east, and Hampshire Street, the Somerville border, Kirkland Street, Quincy Street, and Cambridge Street on the north.
Old Cambridge Historic District
Neighborhood
The Old Cambridge Historic District is a historic district encompassing a residential neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts that dates to colonial times.
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
- Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.37809° or 42° 22′ 41″ northLongitude
-71.11394° or 71° 6′ 50″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
87JC9VHP+6COpenStreetMap ID
way 29932762OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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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”
- Czech: “Harvardské semitské muzeum”
- Esperanto: “Harvard Muzeo pri Antikva Proksima Oriento”
- Esperanto: “Semida Muzeo de Harvard”
- French: “Musée de l’Ancien Proche-Orient de Harvard”
- French: “Musée du Proche-Orient ancien de Harvard”
- French: “Musée du Proche-Orient antique de Havard”
- French: “Semitic museum”
- German: “Harvard Museum für den Alten Nahen Osten”
- German: “Harvard Museum für den Alten Orient”
- German: “Harvard Semitisches Museum”
- German: “Harvard-Museum für den Alten Orient”
- Hebrew: “המוזיאון השמי”
- Japanese: “セム博物館”
- Japanese: “ハーバード大学セム博物館”
- Portuguese: “Harvard Semitic Museum”
- Portuguese: “Museu Semita de Harvard”
- Portuguese: “Museu Semítico de Harvard”
- Russian: “Semitic Museum”
- Russian: “Гарвардский музей древнего Ближнего Востока”
- Russian: “Семитологический музей Гарвардского университета”
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