Museums & Collections


The Fish in Harvard Square

Artist Isola Murray’s child-size animals

by Olivia Farrar

Stop—and Ponder—the Presses

A unique museum in Haverhill, Massachusetts, offers a history of graphic arts.

by Nell Porter Brown

Focus on West African Women

The Harvard Film Archive features works by director Rosine Mbakam

Western Civ.

An archaeologist/curator/hands-on humanist, and an artifact from the era of typewritten term papers

by Primus VI

Barbara Lawrence

Brief life of an intrepid mammalogist: 1909-1997

by Jonathan Shaw

Of Coffee and Cryptogamic Botany

Harvard’s Farlow Herbarium at 100

by Jonathan Shaw

Made in Germany

Harvard Art Museums’ new exhibition Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation explores the search for national identity, in Germany as in the United States.

by Olivia Farrar

Unbuttoned Up

Works by Harlem-based artist Beau McCall at Brockton's Fuller Craft Museum

by Nell Porter Brown

Men and Their Castles

Historic New England explores the “bachelor decorators”

by Nell Porter Brown

A Victorious Vessel

USS Constitution—for all ages

by Max J. Krupnick