In Cambridge, Harvard’s natural history museum packs a university’s treasures into galleries kids can grasp: a 42-foot Kronosaurus skeleton, a room of sparkling minerals, taxidermy from every continent and the world-famous Glass Flowers – thousands of impossibly perfect botanical models made of glass by father-and-son artists.
Family programs, scavenger hunts and the connected Peabody Museum of Archaeology (one ticket admits both) stretch the visit across world cultures. It’s the brainy, beautiful museum day that turns Boston kids into Harvard-daydreamers – and the glass sea creatures alone are worth the trip.
