Combining models with specimens from multiple MCZ departments, the new Marine Life exhibit in the Harvard Museum of Natural History immerses visitors in the New England coastal water environment and presents research from around the world. Read more about the exhibit in the Harvard Gazette.
The MCZ participates in an exhibit on brains and their development currently on display in Northwest Building at Harvard through March 2015. (February 2014)
The MCZ lends Malacology specimens to the Harvard Graduate School of Design to complement their exhibit "Landscape Infrastructure" on display through December 2011. (August 2011)
Adam Baldinger, Curatorial Associate for the Malacology department of the MCZ, recently traveled to Connecticut to accept a donation of shells from a private collector. Read more about how these shells came to Harvard.
MCZ mollusks collected by Ernst Mayr, Darwin's finches, and primate skulls are featured in a special exhibit "Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution" through May 2009 at the Cabot Science Library.
"The Language of Color" is on display through September 6, 2009 at the HMNH. MCZ specimens are featured that highlight the ways animals use color and shows the role that color has played in evolution. A Harvard Magazine story includes a video tour of the exhibit with MCZ Curator Hopi Hoekstra. Harvard Magazine, 10/24/2008