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Conference Venue
Conference Rooms:
Sackler Museum Lecture Room
The Arthur M. Sackler Museum
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tsai Auditorium, S020, S030
Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Google Map.
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Campus map (link: http://map.harvard.edu/mapindex.cfm?mapname=camb_allston)
Full parking directions (link: http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/cam.shtml)
Getting to Harvard University
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA, or the T) runs the area's public transportation, including the subway system, buses, and water taxis. Their Web site includes information about getting around, schedules, and a trip planner. Harvard University is located on the Red line. Exit station via the Harvard Yard exit. Enter Harvard Yard through Johnson's Gate (the main gate). Cross through the old yard, and through the inner yard in front of Widner Memorial Library. Exit the yard at Quincy Street. The Sackler is to the left on Broadway, and Fairbank is adjacent on Cambridge.
Logan International Airport is the closest large airport. There are smaller airports nearby, like Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts, Manchester Airport in Manchester, New Hampshire, and T.F. Green in Providence, Rhode Island.
Amtrak stations close to Harvard University include South Station, Back Bay, and North Station. These stations also connect to different subway and bus lines of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. South Station is on the same subway line, the Red Line, as Harvard's Cambridge campus.
Greyhound (link: greyhound.com) and other national bus operators stop at the South Station bus terminal as well.
For those driving into Boston:
From the West:
Mass. Pike Eastbound (Route 90) take Cambridge/Allston Exit (on left side on road). Proceed through Toll Booth toward Cambridge/Somerville. At end of ramp is the intersection of River Street and Soldier's Field Road. Cross Soldier's Field Road, go over the Charles River to Memorial Drive. Left onto Memorial Drive to J.F.K. Street . Right onto J.F.K. and follow J.F.K. through Harvard Square. Bear right at lights after Harvard Square into a tunnel. Stay in right lane onto Broadway - Fogg is on right and the Sackler is on the left. Quincy Street is the first right outside of the tunnel.
From the East and South:
Route 93/3 North to Mass. Pike - 90 West. Take Allston/Cambridge Exit to Memorial Drive -to J.F.K. Street - (follow West instructions from here).
From the North:
I 93/Route 1 South to Cambridge Memorial Drive Exit. Memorial Drive to J.F.K. Street. (follow above directions from here).
Parking:
Parking in the vicinity is difficult, and is restricted to Cambridge residents only on many nearby local streets. There is some on-street metered parking. Visitors are encouraged to use the area's extensive public transit system, particularly the MBTA Red Line which provides inexpensive parking at its Alewife station. For those traveling to Harvard by car, limited parking is available at:
1) Church Street Lot: 41 Church Street, between Brattle & Mass. Ave.)
2) Harvard Square Parking: corner of Eliot & JFK Streets.
3) Charles Square Garage: University Rd. & Bennett St.
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