Harvard Museum of Natural History - Boston, Massachusetts

The Harvard Museum of Natural History, located at 26 Oxford Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a public museum. It is a collection of three separate institutions including the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Botanical Museum, and the Mineralogical and Geological Museum.

The Museum of Comparative Zoology showcases a varied array of exhibits that range from fossils to modern animals and includes twelve different departments. The names of the department categories are: Biological Oceanography, Marine Biology, Entomology, Ichthyology, Population Genetics, Mammalogy, Herpetology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Vertebrate Paleontology, Ornithology, Invertebrate Zoology, and Mollusks.

The museum's exhibits include permanent and short-term displays. One of the newest temporary exhibits entitled "Nests and Eggs" is a multimedia exhibit that allows visitors to interact as they learn and observe. Arthropods, a permanent exhibit for quite some time now, showcases a variety of specimens, educational videos, exciting hands-on activities, and live animals.

The Botanical Museum includes an extensive paleobotanical collection. The primary highlight, however, is the Glass Flowers Gallery, which has gained international fame. The Gallery showcases an imaginative collection of more than 3000 glass models crafted by Leopold Blaschka and his son, Rudolph Blaschka. This gallery represents over 800 species of plants. A number of glass bugs are also featured in this collection, adding a nice, realistic touch.