Harvard Museum of Natural History’s Entrance on Oxford Street

Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance with red brick facade and spring flowering vines in Cambridge.
Harvard Museum of Natural History entrance with red brick facade and spring flowering vines in Cambridge.

The Harvard Museum of Natural History occupies the north wing of a brick building erected in 1859 for Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology on Oxford Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It opened to the public under its current name in 1998, bringing together collections from the university's zoology, botany, and mineralogy museums under one roof. The museum is best known for the Blaschka Glass Flowers, more than 4,000 glass models of plants crafted between 1887 and 1936 by the German father-and-son artisans Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. Its collections also include the zoological specimens and mineral holdings inherited from Harvard's 19th-century natural history museums.

Taken April 2025

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