Museums & Collections
Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.
Radcliffe Acquires a Black Feminist’s Archive
An architect of Black women’s studies, Barbara Smith introduced the concepts of “identity politics” and “intersectionality.”
An innovative gate for Harvard Yard
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
by Jacob Sweet
An organismic biologist praises reawakening to the natural world
Re-engaging with nature alongside the director of the Arnold Arboretum
How cartographers filled “empty” space with animals
The era of imaginative mapmaking
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion”
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
“This is Not a Gag,” MASS MoCA
Richard Nielsen: “This is Not a Gag,” at MASS MoCA
Peabody Museum Discovers Possible Slave Remains in Its Collections
“We must begin to confront the reality of a past in which academic curiosity and opportunity overwhelmed humanity,” Harvard president Lawrence Bacow wrote.
Harvard Portrait: Cassandra Albinson
A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
Edwin Binney, 3rd
Brief life of a philanthropic art collector: 1925-1986
Radcliffe’s 1936 exhibit celebrating women in university life
“Women in Science” on display
by Alona Bach
Peabody Essex Museum fashion exhibit
Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion