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 Cambridge.nIt displays a sampling of specimens drawn from the collections of the University’s three natural history research museums: the Harvard University Herbaria, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Harvard Mineralogical Museum. At the museum’s permanent exhibition, visitors can familiarize themselves with a rich collection – from fossil invertebrates and dinosaurs to giant mammals and birds.nThe museum has the world’s only assembled skeleton of a kronosaur. There is also a mineralogical collection, which presents minerals and meteorites. The attraction of the museum is the collection of glass models of plants. Exhibitions, public lectures, excursions are constantly held.nThe museum is physically connected to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at 26 Oxford Street. One admission grants visitors access to both museums.