Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
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Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology is a museum in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Turkey Hill stands 107 m to the northwest, 4.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Harvard Museum of Natural History, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 2.6 miles off.
The story
The Museum of Comparative Zoology (formally the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology and often abbreviated to MCZ) is a zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of three natural-history research museums at Harvard, whose public face is the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Harvard MCZ's collections consist of some 21 million specimens, of which several thousand are on rotating public display. While the research collections of the MCZ are not open to the public, the museum maintains MCZbase, a public database of its zoological collections. Many of the exhibits in the public museum have not only zoological interest, but also historical significance. Past exhibits have featured a fossil sand dollar collected by Charles Darwin in 1834, a mamo collected by Captain James Cook, and two golden pheasants that once belonged to George Washington. Gonzalo Giribet, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, has served as the museum's director since 2021.
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Dates from 1859.
Wikidata Q1420782, matched on coordinates and name (38 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 6 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 2.6 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 3.2 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 24.4 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 3 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 24 mi
- Eagle Rock · 27 mi
- Lookout Point · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mesoamerican Stele: 0.1 mi
- Bessie: 0.1 mi
- Night Wall I: 0.1 mi
- Judgement: 0.1 mi
- Compare The Shells: 0.2 mi
- Adolphus Busch Hall Garden: 0.2 mi
- Wallach Garden: 0.4 mi
- Harvard Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Green Street Neighborhood Garden: 0.8 mi
- Statue of John Bridge: 0.3 mi
- Civil War Monument: 0.3 mi
- Irish Famine Memorial: 0.3 mi
- John Harvard Statue: 0.3 mi
- Statue of Charles Sumner: 0.3 mi
- Flagstaff Park: 0.3 mi
- Sacramento Field: 0.3 mi
- Dawes Island Park: 0.3 mi
- Cambridge Common: 0.3 mi
- Shady Hill Square: 0.4 mi
- Harvard Square: 0.4 mi
- Charles Riverboat Company: 2.1 mi
- Longfellow Bridge Trophy Room: 2.2 mi
- Citgo Sign: 2.3 mi
- 34: 2.3 mi
- Dana Hill: 0.6 mi
- Spring Hill: 0.7 mi
- Spring Hill: 0.7 mi
- Central Hill: 1.0 mi
- Prospect Hill: 1.2 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.6 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.7 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.7 mi
- Mystic River Reservation: 1.8 mi
- Amory Woods: 2.2 mi
- Borggaard Beach: 5.4 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach: 5.7 mi
- Pleasure Bay Beach: 5.7 mi
- Corinha Beach: 6.8 mi
- Short Beach: 6.9 mi
- Crag 1: 4.6 mi
- Lunch Wall: 4.7 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 4.8 mi
- Lower Cliff: 4.8 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 4.8 mi
- Pine Knoll: 5.2 mi
- Oak Lea: 5.3 mi
- Nature's Pavilion: 5.4 mi
- Picnic Site 1: 7.1 mi
- Valley Shelter: 7.1 mi
- Boathouse: 12.0 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 12.0 mi
- Oil Shed: 12.0 mi
- Rainshed: 12.0 mi
- Boston Light: 12.0 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 2.6 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 11.4 mi
- State Route 3 Parking Area Northbound: 24.8 mi
- State Route 3 Parking Area Southbound: 24.8 mi
- Quarry Spring: 4.0 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 12.0 mi
- Mystery Spring: 20.5 mi
- Cascade Falls: 5.0 mi
- Rock Falls: 13.6 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 19.6 mi
- Haywardville: 6.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 5.3 miles of Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey Hill | NW 322° | 107 m | 4.7 mi |
| Mount Pisgah | NNW 331° | 105 m | 5.3 mi |
| Single Tree Hill | SSW 206° | 100 m | 4.3 mi |
| Waban Hill | SW 228° | 98 m | 4.0 mi |
| Mount Gilboa | NW 315° | 95 m | 4.8 mi |
| Cairn Hill | NNE 18° | 92 m | 4.8 mi |
| Wellington Hill | WNW 293° | 91 m | 4.2 mi |
| Mount Walley | SSW 193° | 91 m | 5.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:43 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:32 | 18:07 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:30 | 16:15 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 38 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 65 | 53 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 5.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jamaica Plain, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/367781122
Day trips start here
- Cambridge · 0 mi
- Somerville · 1 mi
- Boston/Allston-Brighton · 2 mi
- Arlington · 3 mi
- Boston · 3 mi
- Boston/Back Bay-Beacon Hill · 3 mi
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