Harvard Museum of Natural History
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.
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| Established | 1998 (by merger of 3 earlier museums) |
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| Location | 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 |
| Coordinates | 42°22′42.29″N 71°6′55.99″W |
| Collection size | 12,000 |
| Visitors | 210,000 (2013) |
| Owner | Harvard University |
| Public transit access | Harvard (MBTA Red Line) |
| Website | hmnh |
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 2012, Harvard formed a new consortium, the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, whose members are the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, the Peabody Museum, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.