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.”
Fairbanks House, Dedham, Massachusetts
Dedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”
Wenham Museum’s “Equestrian Histories”
Equestrian life and sports on the North Shore
A pocket globe at the Harvard Archives
Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe
by Jacob Sweet
New England’s Oddities
Exploring New England’s more unusual sites with J.W. Ocker
Exploring Worcester, Massachusetts, and Purgatory Chasm
Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester
“Visual Science” exhibit at Harvard
New Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”
Moon Landing 50th Anniversary at Harvard Museum of Natural History
A lunar rock and a moon landing’s fiftieth anniversary prompt a party at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Jenny F. So reinterprets Harvard’s Winthrop collection
A fresh, up-close look at the Winthrop collection
Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
Kay Kenny’s nighttime photographs at the Griffin Museum
Photographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night.