University Museum is a historic building that houses several museums on the campus of Harvard University located between 24-28 Oxford Street and 11-25 Divinity Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The building houses both the Harvard Museum of Natural History at 26 Oxford Street, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at 11 Divinity Avenue, as well as several departments of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Mineralogical & Geological Museum.
The structure was originally built in 1859, with most of the current building completed in 1891-92; and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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