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Harvard
Museum of Natural History
The
Harvard Museum of Natural History located at 26 Oxford Street,
Cambridge, is a public museum founded and operated by three natural
history institutions of the Harvard University; viz. the Botanical
Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Mineralogical and
Geological Museum. Their exhibitions and educational programs, present a
historic and interdisciplinary interactive presentation of science and
nature. Their emphasis is on evolutionary theory.
The
Museum has both permanent and changing exhibitions that draw from the
collections of the parent museums. The highlights of this museum include
the extraordinary Glass Flowers, the historic Hall of Mammals, Romer
Hall of Vertebrate Paleontology, and amazingly comprehensive minerals,
rocks, ores and meteorites.
The
extraordinary “Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants”,
is a unique collection of over 3,000 glass flowers representing more
than 830 plant species. Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolph crafted
them over five decades, since 1886. Just this one gallery is worth every
penny and minute spent at the Museum.
The
Museum is open daily 9 am - 5 pm and is closed on New Year's Day,
Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. General admission
is $6.50 for Adults.
John
F. Kennedy Library & Museum
Located
at Columbia Point, off I-93, south of Downtown, the John F. Kennedy
Library & Museum is dedicated to the memory of JFK the thirty-fifth
and by all accounts the most dynamic President of the United States.
The
museum has re-created the early 1960s and the life and legacy of John
and Jacqueline Kennedy. The whole is presented through 25 exhibits, 3
theaters and 20 video presentations.
Their
stated mission is “to advance the study and understanding of President
Kennedy's life and career and the times in which he lived; and to
promote a greater appreciation of America’s political and cultural
heritage, the process of governing and the importance of public
service”
The
Library is one of ten Presidential Libraries administered by the
National Archives and Records Administration. It was dedicated on
October 20, 1979.
The
Library and museum is open daily from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, except
Christmas, New Year and Thanksgiving.
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