Museums & Collections


Doctors for Change

Countway Library exhibit explores historic anti-nuclear activism

by Nell Porter-Brown

Museums, Making Their Way

Pandemic perspectives from the Getty and the Harvard Art Museums—and art’s role in refreshing “the dialogue with other human beings”

by Caroline Engelmayer

“Hands On” with Fragile Glass Sea Creatures

Complementary imaging techniques combine to create 3-D models that virtual visitors can examine from any angle.

by Matteo Wong

Rebelling and Expelling

The Class of 1823 goes rogue and gets booted.

by Jacob Sweet

“A Step Up from the Usual Beautiful”

Exploring the coastal wonders of Essex, Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Royall House and Slave Quarters

Preserving black history as “an act of liberation”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Bringing Black History to Light

A Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts

by Lydialyle Gibson

How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Fall semester interrupted, a century ago

by Matteo Wong

How the Lines Get Bent

Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography” 

by Matteo Wong

Air Mail

A wartime life together—cut short

by Blythe Grossberg

A Living Treasure in Boston

Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum

by Nell Porter-Brown