Contact

For inquiries regarding MCZ holdings or specimen data, please contact the relevant departmental collection:

For General MCZ Inquiries


(617) 495-2460, email

Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Additional contacts can be found on our People page. 

Internship Opportunities

The Museum of Comparative Zoology welcomes interns from a diversity of backgrounds in our collections. If you are interested in arranging an internship and are 16 or older, please send your resume to the department you are interested in (see list above). Students must be able to dedicate regular hours over a semester, the academic year, or summer. Unfortunately, the MCZ is no longer able to accept volunteers.

Staff Position Openings 

Please visit the Harvard Careers website to view open staff positions in the MCZ. 

Public Exhibits

The MCZ is not open to the public.  Public exhibits of MCZ zoological specimens can be viewed at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.