Museums & Collections | October 31, 2014

Additional photographs of the Harvard Art Museums' galleries

Additional images of the Harvard Art Museums galleries

The Harvard Art Museums will reopen on November 16, 2014. In the meantime, here are additional images from a handful of galleries and from the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.

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