Location:
22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA
and
26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA
Affiliation:
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University Herbaria
Founded:
1858
Collections:
The Harvard Botanical Museum is made up of several collections, including the Paleobotanical Collection, the Economic Botany Collection, and the Ware Collection of Glass Models of Plants. The Botanical Museum is one of three museums that comprise the Harvard Museum of Natural History (the others are the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Minerological Museum).
Publications:
- Digital Collections of the Botanical Museum
- Franklin Wiley. Flowers That Never Fade: An Account of the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models. Boston: B. Whidden, 1897.
- Rupal Christine Pinto. Making Harvard's Glass Flowers: The Interface of Botany, Gender, and Artistic Virtuosity in America. Harvard College Thesis, 2002.
Contact:
617.495.2365
