Explore dinosaurs, meteorites, Glass Flowers, Maya and Egyptian monuments, historical scientific instruments, and much more at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture!

Each visitor pass is valid for one general admission to all four HMSC museums:

• Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East - The museum explores the rich history of the Near Eastern cultures. Exhibitions include a full-scale replica of an ancient Iron Age home, life-sized casts of famous Mesopotamian monuments, authentic mummy coffins, interactive displays, and tablets containing the earliest forms of writing.


• Harvard Museum of Natural History - Visit the new exhibits Swimming with Sharks and In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, as well as the popular Glass Flowers gallery. Find your birthstone gem in the newly renovated mineral gallery, and view dinosaur fossils in the paleontology gallery. 


• Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology - Explore Maya culture in the Latin American galleries. Discover the early days of American anthropology as shown in the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Experience Native American history and cultures through special exhibitions on Penobscot Canoes, Lakota Images of the Contested West, and the Indian College at colonial Harvard. 


• Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments - The collection contains over 20,000 objects dating from about 1400 to the present. A broad range of scientific disciplines are represented, including astronomy, navigation, horology, surveying, geology, calculating, physics, biology, medicine, psychology, electricity, and communication.