Lectures and programs at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are open to public and are held at 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge.
STORIES THROUGH TIME
A Family Festival
Saturday, March 9, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Join the museum for our biggest family event of the year. Stories Through Time on Saturday, March 9, 9:00 invites you to explore our past with faculty, students, and curators from Harvard's science and culture museums. Examine tools used by earliest humans. Play a 3,000-year-old Mesopotamian game. Watch changes in season unfold in a minute-long video. Handle real meteorite fragments.
FROM THE BIG BANG TO BROADWAY
How Things Evolve
Lecture by Robert Hazen, Research Scientist, Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory and Professor of Earth Sciences, George Mason University
TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 6:00 PM
RIVER. SPACE. DESIGN.
Towards a New Urban Water Culture
New Directions in EcoPlanning Annual Lecture by Antje Stokman, Professor and Director of Landscape Planning and Ecology, Stuttgart University, Germany
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 6:00 PM
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE GALLERY REOPENING LECTURE
Lecture by Francis A. Macdonald, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 6:00 PM
PALEOFANTASY
What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
Lecture by Marlene Zuk, Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 6:00 PM
From the Stone Age diet plan to Paleo workouts, our culture is rife with pseudo-scientific fads based on a time when we supposedly were more "in sync" with nature. Marlene Zuk dismantles this nostalgia and argues that evolution yields neither perfection nor a final product.