Museums & Collections
Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.
This Connecticut Mine Was Once a Prison
The underground Old New-Gate Prison quickly became “a school for crime.”
Blanche Calloway, Cab’s Enterprising Older Sister
The success and struggles of a pioneering musician
by Jacob Sweet
Springtime Antics at the Arnold Arboretum
Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
Photographs and Blackness, Barkley L. Hendricks
How the artist saw community—and the world
“That Human Element”
The Houghton debuts a digital collection of African-American primary sources.
Arnold Arboretum Turns 150
A look back at the Arboretum's history—and the millennia to come
The Fighting Pencil
How cartoonists powered the USSR propaganda apparatus
Milton Avery, Wadsworth Atheneum
The American painter’s "playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire" on display in Hartford
by Jacob Sweet
A Verdant Cultural Retreat
Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.
A Post-Plague Outpost
Candice Lin’s otherworldly refuge
True Crime
Helen Jewett and the origin of American murder media