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.”
Medford’s Royall House and Slave Quarters
Preserving black history as “an act of liberation”
Bringing Black History to Light
A Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
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
Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum
Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum
A World War II love story from the Schlesinger Library archives
A wartime life together—cut short
Transforming Portraiture and the World
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
Rainforest flora images by Margaret Mee
Botanical bounty at Dumbarton Oaks
Blackstone River Valley sights and activities
Tracing America’s industrial roots in the Blackstone River Valley
American Gold Rush, Peabody Essex Museum
“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum