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The MCZ joins 15 other museums and institutional collections in a four-year effort to image 20,000 vertebrate species with high-resolution microcomputed tomography (µCT). The oVert project is funded by a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. National Science...

The Harvard Art Museums have recreated a historical cabinet of curiosities in the exhibit The Philosophy Chamber featuring MCZ specimens from Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Paleontology and Ornithology collections. Read more info in the Harvard...

The new Harvard Museums of Science and Culture exhibit SCALE: A Matter of Perspective includes MCZ glacite models of protists, a fossilized amphibian skull and a small diorama of the paleontological excavation that produced the skull. You can read more...

The 2015-2016 MCZ Annual Report is now available to download from our website. Read about special projects completed during the year, faculty, staff and student awards, headline-making research, and more.

On September 7, 2016, the MCZ signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Institute of Ecology, South Korea . The MOU will promote and facilitate joint research and educational activities by people at NIE and Harvard.

The 2014-2015 MCZ Annual Report is now available to view online.