Since meteorites are rare and there are several materials that are often mistaken for meteorites, please explore the meteorite identification links below before contacting the museum with this request.
New England Meteoritical Services | ... |
Due to safety concerns, we do not have radioactive minerals on display. However, the MGMH does have radioactive minerals in its collection, which are all stored in a thickly walled radioactive storage room designed to minimize potentially harmful exposure...
Raquel Alonso-Perez, Curator of the Mineralogical and Geological Museum, Harvard University is responsible for access to, teaching, research, public education, and continued development of the world-class Earth Science collections at Harvard University...
Kevin has worked with the Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) Department and Harvard Mineralogical and Geological Museum for the past 25 years. Kevin has a B.A. from the University of Connecticut and M.A. from the University at Albany and has been heavily...
Please send a letter or e-mail telling us about your object and whether you are offering it as a gift or as a bequest. It will help us greatly if you can enclose photographs or digital images. Please provide a description, including materials, date of...
Generally, the most time-consuming portion of the acquisition process is gathering information from the donor.
We may have to contact you several times before we have enough information for your object to be considered by the Collections Review Committee...
The MGMH has a formal decision-making procedure. Briefly, museum specialists will assess the object on the basis of various criteria and discuss their findings. A recommendation is then made to the director who, acting for the university, makes the final...