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Harvard Museum of Natural History

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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Forbes Pigment Collection

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

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Pooh's House

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

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Modica Way

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

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Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

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O'Reilly Spite House

This is the house that spite built.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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MIT Museum: Arthur Ganson

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

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Unique Food & Drink in Cambridge

Salt Cellars

These embellished containers didn’t just sit pretty on the table; they determined social standing.

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Meet the Artist Who Does Extreme Close-Ups of Utility Poles

Rosamond Purcell finds stories, landscapes, and more on their mottled surfaces.

October 16, 2020

Glass strawberries, or <em>Fragaria</em>, gone white with imitation <em>Penicillium</em>.

Feast Your Eyes on These Delicate Glass Models of Decaying Fruit

Blighted, century-old produce goes back on display for the first time in decades.

by Jessica Leigh Hester

August 27, 2019

Broadway Bicycle School, founded in 1972, is one of the few countercultural spaces in Devin's book that are still around today.

Mapping the Lost Countercultural Hotspots of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Local librarian Tim Devin has found hundreds of buildings that once housed utopian groups.

John Keats's hair, with a note from Leigh Hunt attesting to its provenance. The empty frame probably originally contained a portrait of the poet.

Untangling the Secrets of One of Harvard’s Historic Hair Collections

The university's Houghton Library is home to a number of famous tresses.

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