LECTURES

Nature Storytime: Harvard Museum of Natural History

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

March 12, 2011 - Ongoing

Children 6 and under are invited to join Harvard Museum of Natural History staff for Nature Storytime every Saturday & Sunday at 11 am & 2pm. Enjoy stories and poems designed to engage the next generation of explorers with themes related to the museum's galleries.

For children 6 and under. Free with museum...

New England Forests, New Exhibition

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

May 24, 2011-May 31, 2014

New England Forests, a permanent multi-media exhibition explores the natural history our regional forests. Explore the world of woodland caribou, beaver, otter and dozens of other wildlife of New England; learn about lichen cities that cling to rocks; and the circle of life within and around a forest pond from tiny tadpoles to giant moose. A...

The Glass Flowers

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

October 9, 2012-December 31, 2015

3,000 amazingly realistic models of plants, flowers and fruits, painstakingly crafted in glass from 1886 to 1936 by German glass artists, father and son Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka. Some 4,000 models were made by just two men, Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and his son Rudolph (1857-1939). Heirs to a long tradition of glass-working in Bohemia,...