Arthropods: Creatures That Rule
When:
Friday, Dec 12, 2025 9:00a -
Saturday, Dec 13, 2025 5:00p
Friday, Dec 12, 2025 9:00a -
Saturday, Dec 13, 2025 5:00p
Where:
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
Unknown
Hosted by:
Categories:
Good for Groups, History, Kid Friendly, University
Event website:
https://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/arthropods-creatures-rule
Arthropods: Creatures That Rule
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
Open daily 9:00 am-5:00 pm; see website for Holiday Hours
Featuring hands-on activities, dramatic specimen displays, colorful video and graphics, and even live animals, this exhibition draws on the latest scientific research to explore arthropods’ extraordinary evolutionary success and their impact on our lives. Evolving for more than 500 million years, these creatures range in size from giant king crabs to microscopic mites, represent over eighty percent of all animal species, and have colonized every corner of the planet. Now including two new smaller-scale exhibits within the gallery:
Making the Invisible Visible: Digitizing Invertebrates on Microscope Slides showcases the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s collections of glass microscope slides. The data will be made available to the public, allowing researchers across the globe to learn from Harvard’s collections.
Velvet Worms: A Fierce Hunter with a Secret Weapon is a smaller-scale exhibit in the Arthropods Gallery that shines a light on this little-known creature in a category of its own. Velvet worms are not worms—or caterpillars. They are the closest relative to arthropods, and they have remained largely unchanged for 300 million years.
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