[citation needed] In the museum's permanent galleries, visitors encounter the diversity of life on Earth, from dinosaurs to fossil invertebrates and reptiles, to large mammals, birds and fish, and the only mounted Kronosaurus.In addition, a series of changing exhibitions bring focus to new research at the University.The museum offers educational programs and has a partnership with Cambridge public schools; offers public lectures by Harvard biologists, international conservationists, and popular authors; and has a travel program where small groups are led by Harvard science faculty to biodiverse locations.The museum is member-based, with over 3,200[needs update] current members, primarily from the Boston metropolitan area.While the museum is affiliated with the Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and receives important support from the University, it derives most of its operating income from admissions, membership, gifts, and programmatic revenues.
A sample of the Glass Flowers
Skeleton of a
right whale
suspended from the second floor ceiling of the museum