Museums & Collections
Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.
A Space-Age Project for Harvard’s Plant Collection
Light-based analysis of botanical collections link plants to Earth’s changing climate.
by Jonathan Shaw
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
by Nina Pasquini
Doctors for Change
Countway Library exhibit explores historic anti-nuclear activism
by Nell Porter-Brown
Rendering Dreams in Art
South Korean artist’s socially themed photographs at the Peabody Essex Museum
by Nell Porter-Brown
Miniature Worlds
How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life
by Nina Pasquini
Basking in the Beaux-Arts
Park offers art, nature, and history in New Hampshire
by Nell Porter-Brown
Five Questions with Professor Peter Der Manuelian
Harvard professor of Egyptology on unsolved mysteries, cats, and the beauty of ancient craftsmanship
by Olivia Farrar
Emerging Maine Artists
Works by young artists at the Portland Museum of Art
by Nell Porter-Brown
The New Old Boston Athenaeum
Find “the joy of discovery and power of this unique place.”
by Nell Porter-Brown
Birding, Dancing, Cooking…
Celebrating the season with the Trustees
by Nell Porter-Brown
Scientific Stardom
How Galileo’s geometric and military compass helped him calculate his own ascent
by Nina Pasquini