Treasure

Perspective view of a train on tracks lined by trees, surrounded by colorfully dressed onlookers.

Treasure | May-June 2025

Miniature Worlds

How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life

by Nina Pasquini

Treasure | July-August 2018

Gymsuits, Pre-Spandex

Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged

by Sophia Nguyen

Treasure | May-June 2018

Hard Lives, in Wax

Artifacts of embryology 

by Sophia Nguyen

Treasure | March-April 2018

The Benton Gospels

Rare and beautiful, then and now: a Byzantine codex at Dumbarton Oaks

by Bailey Trela

Treasure | January-February 2018

Games of Old

Amusements to dispel the winter blues

by Diane E. Booton

The lenses of the Bruce telescope mounted for display

Treasure | November-December 2017

Eye on the Cosmos

The telescope that helped define Earth’s place in the universe

by Jonathan Shaw

Treasure | September-October 2017

A Book by Its Cover

Embroidery fit for a prince

by Christy Gordon Baty , Erin Harvey Moody

Treasure | July-August 2017

Palace Pottery

A collection of stunning Jun ceramics displayed—and analyzed

by John S. Rosenberg

Treasure | May-June 2017

Anthropology Anew

The Peabody Museum 150th is a showcase for the origins and evolution of anthropology.

by John S. Rosenberg

Treasure | March-April 2017

The Polaroid Moment

Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston

by John S. Rosenberg

Treasure | January-February 2017

Collecting Ukraine

One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard

by Marina N. Bolotnikova