{"id":9983,"date":"2010-06-19T07:51:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T23:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=9983"},"modified":"2010-06-19T07:56:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T23:56:31","slug":"harvard-museum-of-natural-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/19\/harvard-museum-of-natural-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Museum of Natural History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9263-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9263HarvardMuseumN1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9263-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" width=\"300\" height=\"452\" align=\"right\" \/>One of the five sites included in the CityPass ticket I picked up on Sunday was for admission to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The museum was started in 1998 \u2013 relatively new \u2013 and is located near the Memorial Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Work ended slightly earlier on Monday afternoon, so I raced to the museum trying to get there before its closing time at 5 PM. Got a little lost with the side roads and that the Eyewitness Travel Guide map was somewhat abstracted and missing a bit of detail, and I ended up backtracking a good bit. Also got sidetracked by the Memorial Hall with a glorious setting sun (see the earlier post).<\/p>\n<p>By the time I got to and found the museum, it was just about 35 minutes from closing time.<\/p>\n<p>The museum admission ticket included visitations to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and it was physically connected to the Natural History museum building itself. It was a bit of a rush though, so I didn\u2019t get round to exploring the other two museums. Loss opportunity there.:(<\/p>\n<p>So, fastest museum tour and exploration ever for me: starting with the Glass Flowers exhibit. Each were so realistically and intricately created I couldn\u2019t believe they were made of glass.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9198-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9198HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9198-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The African Animals exhibit, with dozens of life-sized animals from the Savannahs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9222-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9222HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9222-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Holartic animals exhibit, which houses animals from the Northern Hemisphere of the United States:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9232-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9232HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9232-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The centerpiece of the museum: the Hall of Mammals. Several large whale skeletons are suspended from the ceiling: too large for pictures, but it\u2019s in the video.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9236-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9236HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9236-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" width=\"275\" height=\"414\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9237-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9237HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9237-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" width=\"275\" height=\"414\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9240-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9240HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9240-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Fossil Mammals exhibit, with several hoofed animals showcased:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9243-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9243HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9243-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vertebrate paleontology and dinosaurs exhibit below: someone was working on one of the items:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9247-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9247HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9247-HarvardMuseumNaturalHistory\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK that\u2019s a wrap for the Museum. Plenty more pictures in the Flickr album for those of us so inclined.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the five sites included in the CityPass ticket I picked up on Sunday was for admission to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. 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