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Museums in Cambridge (Massachusetts)
Museums in Cambridge (Massachusetts)
MIT Museum, 265 Mass Ave. (Central Sq), Phone: +1 617-253-4444 . Has a huge collection of holography, a hall of hacks (practical physical jokes that get placed around the institute -- like the police car that once graced the top of the great dome is in the hall of hacks), plus rotating exhibits. Great hands-on exhibits for kids, including moving sculptures and a shadow room.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Phone: +1 617-495-3045 . Drawing from the University's vast natural history collections, the HMNH displays the famous Blaschka 'Glass Flowers' collection, dinosaurs (the world only mounted 42-ft. long Kronosaurus), minerals, meteorites, gemstones (a 1,642 lb. amethyst geode), and hundreds of 'stuffed' animals and birds. Fun for the whole family. It's an 8 minute walk across the historic Harvard Yard from Harvard Square (Red Line MBTA). Lectures & educational programs for all ages.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave. One of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology, it houses one of the most comprehensive records of human cultural history in the Western Hemisphere.
Busch-Reisinger Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Phone: +1 617-495-9400, . Devoted to promoting the informed enjoyment and critical understanding of the arts of Central and Northern Europe, with a special emphasis on the German-speaking countries.
The Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Phone: +1 617-384-8310, . Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, with particular strengths in Italian early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, and nineteenth-century French art.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Phone: +1 617-495-9400, . Superb collections of ancient, Islamic, Asian, and later Indian art.
Cambridge Arts Council Gallery, 344 Broadway, Phone: +1 617-349-4380, .
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