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    Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers

    Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers

    Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History

    May 22, 2010-December 31, 2011

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    The Headgear exhibit will feature dramatic arrays of horns, antlers, and head mounts of a wide variety of species drawn from the collections of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, as well as 3-D diorama and video presentations illustrating the use of horns and antlers in combat. Visitors will be invited to explore some of the properties of horns and antlers by touching real specimens and comparing their own body height to the world’s largest antlers, those of the extinct Irish Elk, which span as much as 12 feet. In addition, through specimens and text, visitors will learn about the structure and function of horn-like structures in other animals from tiny beetles to massive dinosaurs. Drawing from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard’s Semitic Museum, the exhibition will display artifacts fashioned from the horn and antler of hoofed animals around the world and introduce visitors to the cultural significance of horns, antlers, and animals that wear them, both real and imagined.


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        Harvard Museum of Natural History

        26 Oxford Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        $9; $7 students and seniors; $6 ages 3-18; under age 3 free; free with Harvard IS

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        May 22, 2010-December 31, 2011

        Times:

        9:00am-5:00pm

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        • Event Name: Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
          "See Carley Thornell's review in the Boston Herald"
          Comment posted by: Boston Herald review from hmnhpr@oeb.harvard.edu, Sep 17, 2010

          http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100613harvard_museum_gets_its_hooks_into_visitors_with_latest_exhibit_horns_aplenty/srvc=home&position=4

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        • Event Name: Headgear: The Natural History of Horns and Antlers
          "See Carley Thornell's review in the Boston Herald"
          Comment posted by: Boston Herald review from hmnhpr@oeb.harvard.edu, Sep 17, 2010

          http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100613harvard_museum_gets_its_hooks_into_visitors_with_latest_exhibit_horns_aplenty/srvc=home&position=4

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