What's on in Boston
Elbaite tourmaline specimen MGMH 106323 in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery

Harvard Museum of Natural HistoryHarvard Square, Cambridge

Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery

Now showingPermanent collection$20

Thousands of rare minerals and gemstones, a 1,600-pound amethyst geode, a new Maine tourmaline display and meteorites - plus touchable zircon crystals intact for 4.3 billion years.

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Azadeh Akhlaghi's staged photograph of the 1912 death of Zeynab Pasha, the Mother of Tabriz

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Introduction to the History of Art

Harvard Art Museums

On Location: Drawing the Outdoors

Harvard Art Museums

All exhibitions in Boston this month Coming up in November

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Brick exterior of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology on Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

History1 min walk
Exterior of the Harvard Art Museums at 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, showing the 1927 neo-Georgian Fogg Museum facade

Harvard Art Museums

ArtFree6 min walk
East view of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Le Corbusier's concrete building with its cantilevered ramp, at Harvard University in Cambridge

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

ArchitectureFree7 min walk

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