Summer Nights at the Museum-Battle to Save the Tiger

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Official Website: Summer Nights at the Museum-Battle to Save the Tiger
Occurs at: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Location: 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 directions
Phone:617-495-3045
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008
Hours: 5 pm to 8 pm.
Ages: Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor: Indoor
Cost: $ see below

Harvard Museum of Natural History
Summer Nights at the Museum

Thursdays, July 31st, from 5 pm to 8 pm

The Harvard Museum of Natural History will open its doors half- price during two Thursday evenings in July. Join us for a summer night of after-hours gallery exploration, along with a special nature documentary screening and discussion with a local scientist. On these nights, Museum will be offering half-price admission from 5pm - 8pm.

Catch a NEW movie at 7 pm, and share in a discussion afterwards. On July 31, at 7 pm, the Museum will screen Battle to Save the Tiger (BBC2 Productions, 48 minutes) Can the Bengal tiger come back from the brink of extinction again? Narrated by David Attenborough, this NEW documentary looks at the controversy surrounding tigers of India’s protected reserves – and why there are fewer today than when the government launched efforts to protect them 35 years ago. Followed by a discussion with John Linehan, Executive Director of Zoo New England , who will address how local zoos are helping combat the exploitation of exotic endangered animals and the illegal pet trade.

Explore the galleries until 8 pm. Find the Bengal and Mongolian tigers and sharks among the hundreds of animals from all over the world in the museum's 19th century galleries. See live scorpions or giant millipedes in the new Arthropods: Creatures that Rule gallery (an arthropod is a creature with a hinged body and outside, or exoskeletons -- creatures which make up 80% of all the species on the planet, from summer favorite lobsters to the hundreds of thousands of species of insects.

Touch meteorites from outer space. See the museum's new exhibit, Sea Creatures in Glass -- amazingly realistic marine animals such as jellies, octopus, anemones, all crafted in glass in the late 19th c. by the same extraordinary glass artists who created Harvard's world famous 'Glass Flowers'. Admire the form and beauty of plants in Looking at Leaves: Photographs by Amanda Means.

50% off regular Admission from 5-8 pm. Adult $4.50 / Students and Seniors $3.50 / Children $3.00. Free under 3. Free to Harvard ID holders and one guest.
Cannot be combined with any other offer, discount, or coupon

Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Red Line MBTA to Harvard Square
For more information, please call 617-495-3045, or visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu

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$4:50 adults; $3.50 seniors; $3 kids 3-18, free under 3 (half price admission

Location

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26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 map

Harvard Square MBTA, RedLine and a 7-8 minute walk across the Harvard Yard. Or see the website for parking information

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Parking (paid by credit card) can be reserved, online, in advance, through the museum's website at the underground garage next to the museum. You have to print the parking pass out at home. There's some street parking.