Event Dime

Pop Quiz: 1776

When:

July 22, 2026 · 9:00 AM

Where:

Harvard Museum of Natural History, Oxford Street 26, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States

Source:

MA250

Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and—or different from —today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do today? Take a guess, then search for specific objects across our four museums—the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near