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Special Membership Offer!

As the year comes to a close, the museum invites you to help us continue our mission of making science, history, and culture accessible to all. This season, you can support our mission while enjoying exclusive benefits for yourself or someone special. Join today and receive up to 3 extra months of membership for free! 

tourmaline mineral

Mineral Gallery

Step inside the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s newly renovated Earth & Planetary Sciences gallery. This expansive space displays thousands of rare minerals and sparkling gemstones, including a stunning new display of Maine’s most famous mineral, Tourmaline.

 

Life size model of the spike-moss, Selaginella rupestris. Model 422, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, 1893.

The Blaschkas at the Microscope: Lessons in Botany

New in the Glass Flowers Gallery! Delve into captivating educational models that meticulously illustrate the life cycles of non-flowering, spore-forming plants and fungi. After nearly a quarter century, these remarkable teaching models make their return.