Museum of Comparative Zoology
The Museum of Comparative Zoology is a zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of three natural-history research museums at Harvard, whose public face is the Harvard Museum of Natural History.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: University building
- Description: natural history museum at Harvard University
- Also known as: “MCZ”, “MCZ Building”, “Museum of Comparative Zoology Laboratories”, and “The Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is situated 400 feet south of Museum of Comparative Zoology.
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 330 feet south of Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Harvard Mineralogical Museum
Museum
The Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard, or the Harvard Mineralogical Museum, is located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Mineralogical Museum is situated 400 feet south of Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Baldwin and Old Cambridge Historic District.
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.
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.
Mid-Cambridge
Suburb
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.
Museum of Comparative Zoology
- Categories: natural history museum, building, and education
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.3793° or 42° 22′ 46″ northLongitude
-71.11519° or 71° 6′ 55″ westOpen location code
87JC9VHM+PWOpenStreetMap ID
way 29825463OpenStreetMap feature
building=universityWikidata ID
Q1420782
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Museum of Comparative Zoology” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Museu de Zoologia Comparada”
- Catalan: “Museum of Comparative Zoology”
- Chinese: “比較動物學博物館”
- Chinese: “比較動物學陳列館”
- Chinese: “比较动物学博物馆”
- Chinese: “比较动物学陈列馆”
- Dutch: “Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology”
- Dutch: “MCZ”
- Dutch: “Museum of Comparative Zoology”
- Esperanto: “Muzeo de Kompara Zoologio”
- French: “musée de zoologie comparée de l’université Harvard”
- French: “musée de Zoologie comparée”
- French: “Musée de Zoologie comparée”
- French: “muséum de zoologie comparée de l’université Harvard”
- French: “muséum de zoologie comparée”
- German: “Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology”
- Hebrew: “המוזיאון לזואולוגיה השוואתית”
- Japanese: “比較動物学博物館”
- Macedonian: “Музеј на споредбена биологија”
- Polish: “Muzeum Zoologii Porównawczej w Cambridge”
- Polish: “Muzeum Zoologii Porównawczej”
- Russian: “Музей сравнительной зоологии”
- Spanish: “Museo de Anatomia Comparada”
- Spanish: “Museo de Anatomía Comparada”
- Spanish: “Museo de Zoología Comparada”
- Swedish: “Museum of Comparative Zoology”
- Ukrainian: “Музей порівняльної зоології”
- “MCZ”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Harvard University Herbaria and Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.
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