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SUMMARY:Summer Solstice: Night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
DESCRIPTION:Inside the Peabody Museum: June 2013<h3>	Summer Solstice: Night at the Harvard Museums of Science &amp; Culture</h3><table align="right" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"></table><p>	<strong><em>Free admission to the Harvard Museums of Science &amp; Culture, including the Peabody Museum, Friday, June 21, 2013 from 5:00 to 9:00 pm.</em></strong></p><p>	Celebrate the longest day of the year with live music, ice cream, hands-on activities, and free admission to all four of the Harvard Museums of Science &amp; Culture (HMSC): the Peabody Museum of Archaeology &amp; Ethnology, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI), the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the Harvard Semitic Museum.</p><p>	Join outdoor festivities on the new Plaza located between the Harvard Science Center and Sanders Theatre/Memorial Hall at One Oxford Street in Cambridge:</p><ul>	<li>		See traditional Aztec dances performed by La Piñata youth, as they celebrate the Solstice with indigenous, folkloric, Latin American music and dance	</li>	<li>		Watch and dance with the Red Herring Morris as they perform seasonal English ritual dances and erect a Solstice May pole 	</li>	<li>		Be part of a human sundial and tell time by your own shadow	</li>	<li>		Test a Viking sunstone—learn how the Vikings navigated even on a cloudy day using polarizing crystals	</li>	<li>		Enjoy rare public access to the roof deck observatory of the Harvard Science Center for solar–telescope viewing of the fading sun on its longest day—and enjoy a unique vista of the Cambridge and the Boston skyline	</li></ul><p>	All HMSC museums will offer free admission and extended hours until 9 pm. See the new exhibition<em>Time and Time Again</em> at the CHSI; the newly renovated Earth &amp; Planetary Sciences exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History; Stephen Dupont photographs of Papua New Guinea at the Peabody Museum, or a recreated ancient Israeli house at the Semitic Museum.</p><p>	Summer Solstice 2013 is free and open to the public. Drop by before or after dinner in Harvard Square, or bring a picnic and stay 'til sunset. In case of rain, the event will move inside the Harvard Science Center.</p><p>	Parking/Directions: Free event parking in the 52 Oxford Street Garage, Cambridge. <br>The Plaza (located near Sanders Theatre) is a 6-minute walk through Harvard Yard from the Harvard Square Red Line T stop. 617-495-3045</p>
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