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

Animal-shaped vessels from around the world at the Harvard Art Museums

Drinking in style, from antiquity to the 1960s

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Twyla Tharp’s “Minimalism and Me”

A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Stevens-Coolidge Place winter activities

Winterlights and scavenger hunts at the historic Stevens-Coolidge Place

by Nell Porter-Brown

“Time is Now: Photography in Baldwin’s Era” exhibit at the Carpenter Center

Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.

by Brandon J. Dixon

Excerpt from “Scale & the Incas”

Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.

James Baldwin’s America, in Photos

A fresh look at the writer’s work and influences

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Alexis Sandler, associate general counsel at MoMA: a profile

Solving legal challenges at MoMA

by Sanya Sagar

Remembering 1969 at Harvard

An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.

by Brandon J. Dixon

“Shifting Sands”: photos from the Peabody Museum

Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari

by Sophia Nguyen

Boston by Foot’s “Dark Side of Boston” tour

“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”

by Nell Porter-Brown