Museums & Collections

Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.

Ancient Egyptian painted sarcophagus with detailed hieroglyphs and a woman's face.

Padimut at Harvard

A rare Egyptian mummy case is on display at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

by Nell Porter-Brown

wintry scene of downtown Vermont's pedestrian shopping zone

Leaning into Winter

Exploring Burlington, Vermont

by Nell Porter-Brown

glass and steel addition to a traditional brick building that houses the Mattatuck Museum

Downtown Oasis

Connecticut’s Mattatuck Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Roman statue of Diomedes with babies crawling on it

What Was the Enlightenment, Really?

“Dare to Know” exhibition highlights nuances in the age of reason.

by Nancy Walecki

Wisteria in Pebble Garden at Dumbarton Oaks

From the Soil Up

The art of conserving an historic garden at Dumbarton Oaks

by May Wang

colorful painting detailing birch trees

The Magic of Luigi Lucioni

 Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of William Randall playing guitar in his Lowell House room, c. 1970-1971

Learners, Grizzled and Downy

An affecting reunion, and Houghton Library accessible to all

by Primus VI

Permafrost Fare

Soured seal liver, anyone?

by Jacob Sweet

“A Moral Obligation”

Charles Berlin and 60 years of collecting for Harvard Library

by Lydialyle Gibson

David Reich standing in his Harvard Medical School laboratory

Telling Humanity’s Story through DNA

Geneticist David Reich rewrites the ancient human past.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Geeky Underground

Science-fiction zines and the quest to save Star Trek

by Nancy Walecki