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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Many years before they were commissioned by Harvard University to make the “Glass Flowers,” father and son artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka meticulously shaped glass and wire into lifelike models of marine animals. Renowned for their beauty and exacting detail, the Blaschka marine invertebrate models were commissioned by universities and museums throughout world during the 19th...
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Cryptomundo.com (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
The famed taxidermy artist Bill Munns shares his reconstructions of the dodo and the elephant bird. Images.
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At Your Cervix (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
On our first day, we visited the MIT Museum and the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Since I'm kind of a backwards person, I'll show you some items from the Natural History Museum first. Bugs. Lots and lots of bugs. Colorful bugs. Pretty bugs. Ugly bugs. Bugs, bugs, bugs. A sea urchin, made of glass. An octopus, also made of glass. Amazing! There was an extensive collection of thousands of glass...
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Genetic Archaeology News (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
'Missing' ancestors of today's animals may not be missing after all
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Art News Blog (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Bank of America has changed how its "Museums on Us" program operates this year. Last year the bank paid for museum entries around America for the whole month of May. This year they have added more museums to the list, but it is now year round, with the first weekend of every month being free to holders of a Bank of America check, ATM or credit card. Here's a list of the participating museums around...
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Explore : ¡Explora! Science Center and Children's Museum, American Visionary Art Museum, Arizona Science Center, Art Institute of Chicago, Artists, Atlanta History Center, Banking, Bank of America Corp., Delaware Art Museum, Delaware Museum of Natural History, Farnsworth Art Museum, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Fine Arts, Folk and Folk-Rock, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Museums, Music, Natural History Museum, The Art Institute, Wadsworth Atheneum
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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Henry David Thoreau Photographs by Scot Miller Illustrating Thoreau's Cape Cod : A Photographer's Story Video Presentation & Lecture 6:00 pm Harvard Museum of Natural History Free and open to the public Details Henry David Thoreau is often considered Concord's curmudgeon, but he also conceded, "Cape Cod's cool..." Readers love his meditations on life and nature while living as an ascetic near Walden...
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TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
USA Classic Routes - BosWash 2008
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Jeremy Jackson, renowned marine ecologist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has been selected to receive the 11th annual Roger Tory Peterson Medal presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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The Daily Vidette (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - An aquarium of a different sort is on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Sure there are small sea slugs, prickly sea cucumbers, a floating jellyfish and an octopus - tentacles curled around his red and yellow body. But these creatures aren't just behind glass - they are glass.
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Main St. USA (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Harvard Museum of Natural History The glass work of Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, now on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in an exhibit titled "Sea Creatures in Glass," includes jellyfish, anemones, sea slugs, polyps and many other specimens. I'm making plans to go to this show of beautiful glass sea creatures that were created to teach zoology, but are seen today mostly as spectacular...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
An aquarium of a different sort is on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
Partners with Harvard Square Business Association
WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, EveryScape, in
partnership with the Harvard Square Business Association, debuted historic
Cambridge, Massachusetts in The Real World Online. It is the first
interactive experience that lets anyone online explore Cambridge's
interiors and exteriors by walking down streets, and going inside more than
25...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/24/2007
A new three-dimensional promotional tool will allow Web surfers to venture down streets and inside some local businesses.
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By Sun and Candlelight (Free subscription) | 08/27/2007
Have you heard about this? I just read about Museum Day in my homeshool support group's newsletter. You can learn more at Smithsonian.com, but the gist of it is:"Museum Day is a nationwide event taking place on Saturday, September 29,...
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Oasis of Sanity (Free subscription) | 07/10/2007
We hit the road early this morning and drove first to Waltham, to pick up the girls -- DD and her cousin, M, at my older sister's house. Then we parked at Alewife T station and rode the train to Harvard Square, and went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. It's a great little museum for the kids, you can see a lot and not be overwhelmed. Then we traipsed through the steamy weather back to
