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Flying in the sky, running on the ground! Seen and unseen! Haval Nature Museum has it all?

All kinds of strange creatures in nature, seen and unseen, have specimens in the Harvard Museum of Natural History that can be seen! From ancient dinosaur fossils to an astonishing number of bird specimens, various animal specimens, all kinds of minerals, the content of the museum is too rich, and photos cannot capture it all. I suggest everyone go and see it in person. The museum is not big and there are not many people, the exhibition area is on the third floor, but the exhibits are really comprehensive. Walking in, I feel like I am a person who has never seen the world before, as if I have seen a three-dimensional encyclopedia. I have been to many museums big and small before, but this is the first time I have seen one that is so comprehensive. If I have enough time, I even feel like I can spend an afternoon in there. Originally went to the glass flower exhibition, but didn't expect to see so many specimens and fossils. When I went, I also saw a mother taking her child to visit. Compared to looking at pictures and encyclopedias at home, this is probably the best choice for children and parents. As soon as you go up, you can see the glass flower exhibition. All the flowers inside are made of glass, and they are really detailed and realistic. Every flower is beautiful. According to the introduction, these glass flower models were made for student learning, which may be the difference between prestigious schools, creating a museum as teaching materials. Most of the specimens in the animal exhibition area are real fossils and skeletons. I feel like those few rooms cover the whole world, and there are precious dinosaur fossils and various... The Harvard Museum of Natural History was established in 1998 and is the most popular museum on the Harvard University campus. It consists of three museums: the Botanical Museum, the Comparative Zoology Museum, and the Museum of Mineralogy and Geology. The Botanical Museum has a large collection of valuable economic and medicinal plant specimens, photos, artificial products, and archaeological materials. Among them, the glass plant models are the rarest collection. The museum has more than 3,000 such models, covering more than 840 plant species. The models are exquisite and perfect, and are unique in the world. The Museum of Comparative Zoology was founded in 1859 and is part of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. It houses approximately 80,000 mammal specimens, 300,000 bird specimens, 500,000 amphibian and reptile specimens, 1 million fish specimens, 1 million invertebrate specimens from both marine and terrestrial habitats, 1.1 million fossil specimens, 7 million insect specimens, and 10 million mollusk specimens, totaling to a combined total of 21 million species represented in the collection. The Museum of Geology and Mineralogy is part of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard College, with collections dating back to 1784 and the museum established in 1891. It boasts an overwhelming 1.5 million mineral and rock specimens, including the oldest rocks on Earth dating back 4.5 billion years. Don't miss out on visiting if you come to Harvard!
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Posted: Apr 12, 2023
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