Museums & Collections

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

Nineteenth-century prison ruins with brick guardhouse surrounded by forest.

This Connecticut Mine Was Once a Prison

The underground Old New-Gate Prison quickly became “a school for crime.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

At Home with Harvard: Night at the Museum

Our favorite stories about Harvard’s rich museums and collections

Photograph of Emily Dickinson’s family home, The Homestead, an elegant wooden building

The Emily Dickinson Museum

Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson

by Nell Porter-Brown

Painting of a young woman standing at a French window, looking at a verdant garden

Bruce Museum’s spring shows

Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see

by Nell Porter-Brown

A bright and colorful historical map of Boston with details of streets, buildings, and green spaces

Boston in Motion

An exhibition maps the making of a metropolis.

by Drew Pendergrass

Detail of a painting showing long grasses and the moon

A Sweeping Exhibit Covers 250 Years of Japanese Art

Paintings from the Edo period convey “a powerful sense of there-ness.” 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Illuminated manuscript page

Rare books at risk

Consequences of book-breaking

by Diane E. Booton

Memorial Church exterior

The Rittase Touch

What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932

by Drew Pendergrass

Photograph of artist Romare Bearden standing by an easel c. 1940

Romare Bearden profiled by Robert G. O'Meally

Brief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988

by Robert G. O'Meally

Clay head over wooden pill bottles with wires representing the impact of opioids on human beings

At the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton: artists reflect on the opioid crisis

Revealing sculptures at the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton

by Nell Porter-Brown

Provincetown harbor in the winter

Winter in Provincetown

Just enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....

by Nell Porter-Brown