A new study published in Science shares a groundbreaking database aimed at addressing 21st century challenges. The MCZ is among the 73 participating natural history museums and herbaria from 28 countries. MCZ Director Gonzalo Giribet, former director and current Curator of...
MCZ's Faculty-Curator of Ornithology Scott Edwards, and other museum staff around the country, talk to NPR about current programs to make specimen data available online.
MCZ collections have been closed for three months but MCZ curatorial staff have continued to work their usual schedules from home. With paper files in hand they have been busy imputing and updating information in our specimen database, MCZbase.
Learn more about what we, and other Harvard museums, have been doing during this time in the...
Research led by Harvard alumna Jenna Tonn revealed how an MCZ exhibition on the genetics of domesticated animals, featuring specimens from Ornithology and Mammalogy, modernized the natural history museum. Read more about the history of early 20thcentury exhibitions at the MCZ in ...
The MCZ joins 15 other museums and institutional collections in a four-year effort to image 20,000 vertebrate species with high-resolution microcomputed tomography (µCT). The oVert project is funded by a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation and led by former MCZ graduate student David Blackburn (...
The Harvard Art Museums have recreated a historical cabinet of curiosities in the exhibit The Philosophy Chamber featuring MCZ specimens from Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Paleontology and Ornithology collections. Read more info in the Harvard Magazine.
The new Harvard Museums of Science and Culture exhibit SCALE: A Matter of Perspective includes MCZ glacite models of protists, a fossilized amphibian skull and a small diorama of the paleontological excavation that produced the skull. You can read more about the exhibit in the Harvard Gazette.
The 2015-2016 MCZ Annual Report is now available to download from our website. Read about special projects completed during the year, faculty, staff and student awards, headline-making research, and more.
