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Commissioned by Harvard as a 19th-century teaching tool to introduce botany students to the beauty and complexity of the plant kingdom, the Glass Flowers are still instructional.

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is stuffed with animals past and present. With thousands of taxidermic and preserved animals in its halls, from common birds to now-extinct mammals, the ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The historic collection of glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History recently reopened after its first comprehensive renovation.

In a three-day process that began last night, the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) will take 40 percent of its 3,000-piece collection off display to await restoration work.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — The Harvard Museum of Natural History may seem like an unlikely hangout for supermodels. But’s that’s where they are — thousands of them — and they are drop-dead ...

Harvard University’s Glass Flowers are some of the most fragile species on the planet.

Housed in a low-lit gallery at the museum, the Glass Flowers (formally known as the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants) include classic and exotic beauties.