page_title: Harvard Museum of Natural History
section_title: Exhibits
hierarchical_section_title: Harvard Museum of Natural History / Exhibits
caption_attribution_description: English: Skeleton of a Right Whale suspended from the second floor ceiling of the museum.
context_page_description: 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.
  It 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.
  The museum is physically connected to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at 26 Oxford Street. One admission grants visitors access to both museums. In December 2012, Harvard announced a new consortium, the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, whose members are the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Semitic Museum, the Peabody Museum, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.
context_section_description: In the museum's permanent galleries, visitors encounter the diversity of life on Earth, from dinosaurs to fossil invertebrates and reptiles, to large mammals, birds and fish, and the only mounted Kronosaurus. The mineralogical galleries present a systematic display of meteorites, minerals and gemstones. The galleries also house the historic Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, popularly known as the Glass Flowers and a new exhibition, Sea Creatures in Glass, displaying some of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology's collection of the Blaschka models of marine invertebrates. In addition, a series of changing exhibitions bring focus to new research at the University. Current exhibitions include Thoreau's Maine Woods: A Journey in Photographs with Scot Miller (through February 2015),Mollusks: Shelled Masters of the Marine Realm, and New England Forests in the Zofnass Family Gallery.
caption: Skeleton of a right whale suspended from the second floor ceiling of the museum
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