Museums & Collections

Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.

Don’t Call Stephanie Pierce A Paleontologist

From competing in youth gymnastics to studying tetrapods, the Harvard curator has always chased her curiosity.

by Laurel M. Shugart

Calderwood Courtyard centers Harvard Art Museums

A tribute to the art museums’ Calderwood Courtyard

by John S. Rosenberg

Mass Audubon’s early spring events

Exploring nature through Mass Audubon

by Nell Porter-Brown

Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum

Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian

A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Tale of Genji Illustrated

A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited

Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”

…and a possible clue in the stacks

by Diane E. Booton

Bed furnishings in early America

A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Pre-Columbian quipu exhibit at the MFA

“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA

by Nell Porter-Brown

A winter’s trip to Portland, Maine

Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Dumbarton Oaks exhibit “Juggling the Middle Ages” is previewed

A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.

by Sophia Nguyen