The day following the art museum, we visited Harvard University. Arriving at Cambridge, we walked around the town until time to meet family.
Harvard Side Street
These bike racks were full when we arrived, eagerly waiting for daily rentals!
Harvard Bike Rack
We meandered through the campus and paid a visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The museum included an exhibit of glass flowers. This exhibit included over 800 glass models of various flowers. These highly detailed models were crafted by a father and son team over a period of 50 years in Germany. These were displayed under glass cabinets with difficult lighting, so I did not have any images. This museum is well worth visiting. Later we also visited the Semitic Museum, where some Egyptian and Mesopotamian artifacts were being exhibited.
After visiting the museums, we made our way through Harvard Yard. Here there is a statue of John Harvard, who founded the university. This statue gathered the attention of several visitors, mainly because of the brass shoe tip that looks like gold. Apparently there is an Asian custom that touching gold helps women falling pregnant! That might explain why this lady is touching the statue’s shoe while onlookers are making photographs. That did not explain why some men also performed the same!
John Harvard Statue
At the southern end of the yard, I stopped to make an image of the colorful chairs, before leaving the campus.
Colorful Chairs In Harvard Yard