The Great Mammal Hall, a two-story gallery 60 feet long by 40 wide, is the oldest and most dramatic in the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH). The hall was emptied of its taxonomic treasures as part of a renovation commemorating the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Museum of Comparative Zoology: the animals were removed and repaired and the display cases restored to their nineteenth-century colors, replacing a palette dating to the 1960s. The gallery reopened October 16. Above, a gaur noses into the stream of escapees during the renovation.
Great Mammal Hall at Harvard Museum of Natural History reopens
Great Mammal Hall at Harvard Museum of Natural History reopens
The Great Mammal Hall in the Harvard Museum of Natural History is restored and reopened.
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