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.
Brief biography of Native American basket-maker Clara Darden
Brief life of an overlooked artist: c. 1829-1910. With images of Darden's masterpieces of river-cane basketry.
by Ivan Gaskell
American business embraces photography in the 1930s
Corporate culture embraces photography.
Updike papers at Houghton Library
Taking a look at the Houghton Library holdings
When print advertising shifted from black and white to color
As consumer products grew more colorful, so did the ads. View an image gallery.
Tasmanian crocoite at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
What lead, chromium, and oxygen can do
Mineralogical Marvels
Rocky treasures from the Harvard Museum of Natural History
Nineteenth-century dancing lessons
A professor's passion reveals how one learned to dance in Jane Austen's day.
War and peace in Memorial Hall's stained glass
A stained-glass window in Harvard's Memorial Hall
Reconstructed Sassetta altarpiece
Investigators construct a virtual Italian Renaissance altarpiece.
A scrapbook of seaweed
Seaweed and seaside scenes of Martha’s Vineyard