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Boston Map: Harvard Museum of Natural HistoryHarvard Museum of Natural History Frommer's Highly Recommended

Hours Daily 9am-5pm
Address 26 Oxford St
Transportation T: Red Line to Harvard, cross Harvard Yard, keeping John Harvard statue on right, and go straight at Science Center, first left is Oxford St
Phone 617/495-3045
Web site www.hmnh.harvard.edu
Prices Admission to both $9 adults, $7 seniors and students, $6 children 3-18, free for children under 3. Free to Mass. residents Sun until noon and Wed 3-5pm
Season Closed Jan 1, Thanksgiving, Dec 24-25
Other www.peabody.harvard.edu

Frommer's Review

These fascinating museums house the university's collections of items and artifacts related to the natural world. Just about everyone finds something interesting here, be it a 42-foot-long dinosaur skeleton, the largest turtle shell in the world, a hunk of meteorite, an exploration of climate science, a Native American artifact, or the world-famous Glass Flowers.

The Glass Flowers are 3,000 models of more than 840 plant species devised between 1887 and 1936 by the German father-and-son team of Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka. You may be skeptical, but it's true: They look real. Children love the zoological collections, where dinosaurs share space with preserved and stuffed insects and animals that range in size from butterflies to giraffes. Arthropods -- insects, centipedes, spiders, and other creepy-crawlies -- have their own multimedia installation. The mineralogical collections are the most specialized but can be just as interesting as the rest, especially if gemstones hold your interest.

Shares admission with Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.

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