The Harvard Museum of Natural History

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You would need to contact the museum directly to ask about arranging to connect with someone who may be able to do that. Try under Education: https://hmnh.harvard.edu/contact

The City Library has parking. Also, street parking is free and open to all on Sundays.

There is a side entrance with an elevator. I use a mobility scooter, and I was able to get up to the floor that has the gift shop by using the elevator. As you face the building, the door near the elevator is on the left side of the building.

Just a water fountain in the museum, but food trucks, Harvard lunch places are a short walk, and dozens of restaurants at all price levels just an 8 minute walk across campus in Harvard Square.

Yes. The museum starts from the third floor and there is a gift shop at the entrance of the third floor.

Admission is $12 adults; $10 seniors and students; and $8 youth. Under 3 is free. The museums are also free to Mass residents, with ID, on Sunday mornings 9-noon, and Wednesdays 3-5 pm (Sept thru May). Mass teachers are also admitted free with ID.

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The Harvard Museum of Natural History is focused on natural sciences and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is focused on history. Our partner museums the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East is a history museum as well, and the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments features historical instruments.

Try using Google or email the museum.

Not sure about discounts, but Sunday mornings are free admission from 9am-noon

Hi Hilda, You can park at the 52 Oxford St. Harvard garage or there is street parking (meters take quarters or you can use the app). There is more detailed information here: https://hmnh.harvard.edu/directions-and-parking. Thanks!

Search for info on the Broadway garage. It is prepay available online.

Harvard Square on the RedLine is a 7-8 minute walk, cutting across Harvard Yard. If you’re coming by Fitchburg Line Commuter Rail to Porter Square, that Station is just under one mile, so an easy walk with lots of shops and restaurants en route.

Yes, open on Easter.

An underground paid garage is next door, but needs to be reserved online in advance, see www.hmnh.harvard.edu, under Plan Your Visit.

1-2 hours if you're a casual browser, 2-3 if you read all of the signs and "can't leave until you see everything!"

Absolutely. 500 different species of ‘stuffed animals”. Kids sometimes call it the “frozen zoo”. The museum is enormously popular with toddlers. My own little boy made me take him at least twice a month for several years starting as soon as he could walk. Later he loved all the colorful minerals and gemstones, and still later, the dinosaurs and prehistoric animals.

Here are our admission rates: Adults: $15.00 Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $10.00 Seniors (65+): $13.00 Children ages 3–18: $10.00 Children under 3: Free For information on free admission times check our website: https://hmnh.harvard.edu/plan-your-visit

The Museum of Comparative Zoology’s collections are extensive and built largely from donations or research excavations where the precise locations of finds can be known. Enjoy your trilobite.

The Harvard University parking garage system has room for visitors to park in the 52 Oxford Street garage, just a short walk from the museums. Please see details on making a reservation here: https://hmnh.harvard.edu/directions-and-parking.

Yes. The mastodon found in NJ is on permanent display in the Cenozoic. Mammals Gallery.

The museum is free to Mass residents with ID Sundays 9 to noon year round. Also free to Mass teachers at all times, to active duty military and their families. From sept through May they aare also free for Mass residents Wednesdays from 3-5 pm. Plus lots of free evening lectures. See the Website. The partner Harvard Semitic Museum (middle eastern archaeology, and the Collection of Historical, Scientific Instruments are free to all, all the days they’re open. See Hmsc.harvard.edu

Yes. And the glass flowers are amazing!

The Harvard University parking garage system has room for visitors to park in the 52 Oxford Street garage, just a short walk from the museums. Please see details on making a reservation here: https://hmnh.harvard.edu/directions-and-parking.

Harvard square stop is about 25 minutes by T from South station with frequent trains inbound. From Harvard Square, the museum is a 7-8 minute walk across the historic campus—just past the Harvard Science Center. Enjoy your visit. The Glass Flowers are not to be missed!

The shuttle is only for Harvard ID holders, but it’s far faster to walk the 1/4 mile across the beautiful green historic campus than it is to walk to the shuttle, wait 10-15 minutes for the shuttle, and ride it via round about roads. Harvard Square is a walkers’ town. They say an 8 minute walk, but I can walk from the T to the museum in heels in 6 minutes.

Hello, There isn't, but it is about an 8 minute walk from the Harvard Square MBTA red line stop.

Yes, they are open 361 days/year. Closed Thanksgiving,Dec 24-25, January 1 only.

The museum is free to MA residents Sunday mornings 9- noon year round, and Wednesdays 3-5 from September through May. Also free to MA teachers, active duty service people and their families..See website for details....admission is $12 adults, $10 seniors and students, and just $8

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if you are s MA resident, go on Sunday when it is free from 9-12noon