Harvard Museum of Natural History

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natural history museum science museum

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a public science museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, showcasing Harvard’s extensive collections in zoology, botany, mineralogy, and paleontology.

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Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	natural history museum → science museum →
affiliation	Harvard University →
campus	Harvard University campus →
collectionType	botany collection → mineralogy collection → paleontology collection → zoology collection →
country	United States →
exhibit	Africa, Asia & Latin America wildlife displays → Blaschka Glass Models of Plants → Earth & Planetary Sciences displays → Glass Flowers → Glass Sea Creatures → New England Forests → dinosaur fossils → mineral and gemstone galleries → vertebrate paleontology specimens →
focusesOn	biodiversity → botany → earth sciences → evolution → mineralogy → natural history → paleontology → zoology →
hasType	university museum →
hasWebsite	https://hmnh.harvard.edu/ →
language	English →
locatedIn	Cambridge, Massachusetts → Harvard University → Massachusetts →
locatedInTimeZone	Eastern Time Zone →
neighborhood	Harvard Square area →
offers	educational programs → lectures and talks → public exhibitions → school group visits →
opened	1998 →
parentOrganization	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences →
partOf	Harvard Museums of Science & Culture →
predecessor	Harvard University Herbaria → Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard → Museum of Comparative Zoology →
publicAccess	open to the public →
regionServed	Greater Boston →
streetAddress	26 Oxford Street →
usesCollectionOf	Harvard University Herbaria → Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard → Museum of Comparative Zoology →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ernst Mayr ("Museum of Comparative Zoology") → George Gaylord Simpson ("Museum of Comparative Zoology") → George Lincoln Goodale ("Harvard Botanical Museum") →	employer
Blaschka Glass Models of Plants → Glass Flowers →	housedAt
Harvard Museum of Natural History ("Museum of Comparative Zoology") → Harvard Museum of Natural History ("Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard") →	predecessor
Harvard Museum of Natural History ("Museum of Comparative Zoology") → Harvard Museum of Natural History ("Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard") →	usesCollectionOf
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology →	adjacentTo
Blaschka Glass Models of Plants ("Harvard Botanical Museum") →	commissionedBy
Louis Agassiz ("Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University") →	founded
Harvard University →	hasMuseum
Science Park station ("Museum of Science") →	locatedNear
Science Center (Harvard University) ("Harvard University Museum of Natural History") →	near
Leopold Blaschka →	notableCollectionLocation
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology ("Harvard Museums of Science and Culture") →	parentOrganization
Harvard Museum of Natural History ("Harvard Museums of Science & Culture") →	partOf