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.
Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials
Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials
Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts
Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts
Inventions in Early Modern Europe
Images from Stradanus’s "Nova reperta," a series of engravings representing technological innovations of the modern age from the perspective of a practicing artist
Harvard Archives launches website on Harvard in the 17th and 18th centuries
A new Archives website offers today's undergraduates a useful perspective on Harvard homework, and life, in the old days.
High-Tech Art Sleuthing
Conservators are using laser-assisted pigment analysis to identify and authenticate the work of modern artists.
Closeup of a work by sculptor Robert Gober at the Harvard Art Museums
Dysfunctional sink with body parts
A silver-gilt-sheathed coconut goblet links the Age of Discovery with the Bible
A coconut with Bible stories
Harvard art exhibit "Tangible Things"
An exhibition asks the meaning of things.
Inuit art at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
For centuries, a simple technology permitted people to survive the Arctic.
Harvardians promote diversity through art and football
Steven Coit's portraits diversify Harvard's walls, and the 1947 football team defies racism.