Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

This is a nice museum to visit, quite small and don't let the name of the museum confuse you it does indeed mean near-east. So if you're looking for any middle eastern history or history of islamic empires etc. You won't find it here. This is mostly centered around Egyptian history and is really cool with their replicas of hieroglyphs. I'd love to see them add in some middle eastern history just for fun in a small section as the middle east and near eastern history can be tightly intertwined at different points in antiquity

Free museum. Fairly small but has some cool pieces centered around the Assyrians and Egyptians

Very small museum (definitely less than 1 hour). Most of the things on display are replicas or casts of originals. Staff was friendly; can't complain. Wouldn't say this is a "must-see" if you're only in Boston for a week or weekend - the Boston MFA has a lot more. Took my daughter here and she got kind of impatient since there wasn't much to look at it. Just wish there was more on display!

Small and cozy museum, free to enter. You can expect to finish all the exhibits under an hour if not less. Top floor ceiling is gorgeous.

A marvelous walk through three floors and the history of the Ancient Near East. The life size home from ancient Israel made quite an impression on the Bible readers in our group. I particularly liked the display of the clay storage containers that were brought up from an ancient ship wreck and how they were explained.We spent two hours here.
The staff is very friendly and helpful.

This place is really iconic actually!

Mostly plaster casts but the archeologist diaries are a real kick, and an interesting spout on the water pitcher on the second floor. Probably not good food kids but free!