Harvard Museum of Natural History

This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "Harvard Museum of Natural History" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2011)

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Harvard Museum of Natural History Location within Boston Show map of Boston Harvard Museum of Natural History Harvard Museum of Natural History (Massachusetts) Show map of Massachusetts Harvard Museum of Natural History Harvard Museum of Natural History (the United States) Show map of the United States
Established	1998 (by merger of 3 earlier museums)
Location	26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Coordinates	42°22′42.29″N 71°6′55.99″W / 42.3784139°N 71.1155528°W / 42.3784139; -71.1155528
Collection size	12,000
Visitors	210,000 (2013)
Owner	Harvard University
Public transit access	Harvard (MBTA Red Line)
Website	hmnh.harvard.edu

The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It features 16 galleries with 12,000 specimens drawn from the collections of the University's three natural history research museums: the Harvard University Herbaria, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Harvard Mineralogical Museum.^[1]

The museum is physically connected to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at 26 Oxford Street. One admission grants visitors access to both museums. In 2012, Harvard formed a new consortium, the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, whose members are the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, the Peabody Museum, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.^[2]