Museums & Collections

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

Rachel Ruysch’s Lush (Still) Life

Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, a Dutch painter’s art proved a treasure trove for scientists.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Music and Medicine

Toussaint Miller explores the healing power of art.


by Lydialyle Gibson

Gift of Munch Artworks

Transformative bequest left to the Harvard Art Museums

by Jonathan Shaw

The Fish in Harvard Square

Artist Isola Murray’s child-size animals

by Olivia Farrar

Museum of Printing Massachusetts

A unique museum in Haverhill, Massachusetts, offers a history of graphic arts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Film Archive West African Women in Films

The Harvard Film Archive features works by director Rosine Mbakam

Artist Janiva Ellis at the Harvard Carpenter Center

Newly finished paintings unveiled 

David Gordon Mitten, Harvard Classicist, Professor, and Curator

An archaeologist/curator/hands-on humanist, and an artifact from the era of typewritten term papers

by Primus VI

Harvard Pioneering Mammalogist Barbara Lawrence

Brief life of an intrepid mammalogist: 1909-1997

by Jonathan Shaw

Celebrating the Farlow Herbarium’s Centennial

Harvard’s Farlow Herbarium at 100

by Jonathan Shaw

Made in Germany

German national identity at the Harvard Art Museums

by Olivia Farrar