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Harvard Art Museums
485 Broadway | 617.495.9400
harvardartmuseums.org
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| The Harvard Art Museums, among the world’s leading art institutions, comprise three museums (Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler) and four research centers (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis). The Harvard Art Museums are distinguished by the range and depth of their collections, their groundbreaking exhibitions, and the original research of their staff. The collections include approximately 250,000 objects in all media, ranging in date from antiquity to the present and originating in Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Integral to Harvard University and the wider community, the art museums and research centers serve as resources for students, scholars, and other visitors. For more than a century they have been the nation’s premier training ground for museum professionals and are renowned for their seminal role in developing the discipline of art history in this country.
In June 2008 the building at 32 Quincy Street, formerly the home of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums, closed for a major renovation. During this renovation, the Sackler Museum at 485 Broadway remains open and has been reinstalled with some of the finest works representing the collections of all three museums. When complete, the renovated historic building on Quincy Street will unite the three museums in a single state-of-the-art facility designed by architect Renzo Piano.
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00am-5:00pm. Closed on Sundays, Mondays, and some national holidays, please check our website for schedule.
Admission: Paid admission includes entrance to the museum, docent tours, and gallery talks. $9 adults, $7 seniors over 65, $6 college students with valid ID. Admission is free for Harvard University ID holders, Members of the Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge Public Library cardholders, and visitors under 18 years of age. Free on Saturdays before noon for Massachusetts residents with valid ID. |
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Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street | 617.495.3045
hmnh.harvard.edu
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| Explore 12,000 specimens drawn from Harvard’s vast research collections at the University's most visited museum -- dinosaurs, meteorites, gemstones, and hundreds of animals around the globe. Get close to the world’s only mounted Kronosaurus, a 42 ft-long marine reptile; one of the first Triceratops ever discovered; a 1,642 lb. amethyst geode; whale skeletons. Don’t miss the world famous exhibit of 3,000 ‘Glass Flowers’, amazingly realistic models of plants, fruits and flowers created by father-son glass artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka from 1886-1936. You won’t believe they’re not real.
Explore www.hmnh.harvard.edu for changing exhibitions, dozens of lectures, events, classes for all ages, year round.
Location: The museum is on the Harvard University campus, just a short, 7-10 minute walk through historic Harvard Yard from the Harvard Square MBTA Red Line ‘T’ station.
Hours: Open daily, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Admission: $9.00; seniors and students $7.00; $6.00 ages 3-18; under 3 free.
Free for Massachusetts residents only: Wednesdays. 3:00-5:00 pm (September thru May) and Sunday mornings year round, 9 a.m.-noon. Ticket includes admission to the adjacent Peabody Museum. |
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MIT Museum
265 Massachusetts Avenue | 617.253.5927
tinyurl.com/bvrduz
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| The newly renovated galleries and exhibitions located in the heart of Cambridge on the north edge of the MIT campus, make the MIT Museum an exciting place to visit. Permanent exhibitions include Robots and Beyond, Holography, the Light Fantastic and Gestural Engineering: The Sculpture of Arthur Ganson, and displays from the Polaroid Collection as well as some of the most recent cutting edge research from labs across MIT. Interesting programs and public events for all ages, including the Cambridge Science Festival are featured on the website. Free admission Sundays from 10:00 a.m. - noon, and the second Friday evening of each month ( 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.) Additional galleries managed by the Museum are on the MIT campus, and are free to the public - the Hart Nautical Gallery and the Compton Gallery. For more information, visit web.mit.edu/museum.
Special Exhibition:
Don't miss The MIT 150 Exhibition which is open until Dec. 31, 2011. Showcasing "MIT's remarkable achievements" the MIT Museum is currently exhibiting a wide range of artifacts - some quite large, others very small, and many never to be seen in public again - that tell the story of the inventions and innovations brought forward by MIT faculty, students and alumni throughout the last 150 years. |
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Museum of Science
Science Park, Boston, MA | 617.723.2500
mos.org
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| Immerse yourself in the amazing IMAX? dome film experience of the Mugar Omni Theatre, witness a spectacular lightening show or embark on a journey through the universe at the Charles Hayden Planetarium. The Museum of Science, overlooking the scenic Charles River, presents over 550 hands-on, minds-on exhibits, including The Computing Revolution, Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic, and the Virtual FishTank?. |
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: Harvard University
11 Divinity Avenue | 617.496.1027
peabody.harvard.edu
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| The Peabody Museum is the region's principle world cultures museum, with vast collections from North America, ancient Mesoamerica, Africa, and Oceania. Changing exhibits explore human societies and culture from prehistory to the present. Experience the Plains Indian wars from the Lakota perspective, marvel at the spectacular wall paintings of the Maya, Moche, and American southwest, and explore the many island cultures of the Pacific. |
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