Harvard Museum of Natural History
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Harvard Museum of Natural History 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 Geological and Mineral Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 2.6 miles off.
The story
The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It features 16 galleries with 12,000 specimens drawn from the collections of the university's three natural history research museums: the Harvard University Herbaria, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Harvard Mineralogical Museum. The museum is physically connected to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at 26 Oxford Street. One admission grants visitors access to both museums. In 2012, Harvard formed a new consortium, the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, whose members are the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, the Peabody Museum, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1998.
Wikidata Q2001855, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 6 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Harvard University
- Step-free access
- Yes
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: 0.0 mi
- Bessie: 0.1 mi
- Night Wall I: 0.1 mi
- Judgement: 0.2 mi
- Compare The Shells: 0.2 mi
- Adolphus Busch Hall Garden: 0.1 mi
- Wallach Garden: 0.4 mi
- Harvard Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Green Street Neighborhood Garden: 0.7 mi
- Flagstaff Park: 0.3 mi
- Dawes Island Park: 0.3 mi
- Cambridge Common: 0.3 mi
- Sacramento Field: 0.3 mi
- Shady Hill Square: 0.4 mi
- Statue of John Bridge: 0.3 mi
- Civil War Monument: 0.3 mi
- John Harvard Statue: 0.3 mi
- Irish Famine Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Statue of Charles Sumner: 0.3 mi
- Harvard Square: 0.4 mi
- Charles Riverboat Company: 2.1 mi
- Longfellow Bridge Trophy Room: 2.2 mi
- Citgo Sign: 2.2 mi
- 34: 2.3 mi
- Dana Hill: 0.6 mi
- Spring Hill: 0.7 mi
- Spring Hill: 0.8 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: 11.3 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 Natural History. 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 332° | 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 | 4.9 mi |
| Cairn Hill | NNE 18° | 92 m | 4.9 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/367781130
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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