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Harvard Museum of Natural History

Harvard Museum of Natural History
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The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It features 16 galleries with 12,000 specimens drawn from the collections of the university's three natural history research museums: the Harvard University Herbaria, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Harvard Mineralogical Museum. The museum is physically connected to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at 26 Oxford Street.

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  • Wheelchair accessible
Address
26 Oxford St
Hours
Closed · opens 9 am tomorrow
Weekly hours
Mon9 am–5 pm
Tue9 am–5 pm
Wed9 am–5 pm
Thu9 am–5 pm
Fri9 am–5 pm
Sat9 am–5 pm
Sun9 am–5 pm

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