Museums & Collections

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

A photograph of the inside of the From Iran exhibit at the Harvard Peabody Museum

At Harvard’s Peabody Museum, Photos Reimagine Iranian History

Artist Azadeh Akhlaghi reconstructs moments of Iranian political upheaval in a series of meticulously staged images.

by Olivia Farrar

A photograph of an eighteenth-century, three-inch pocket globe in its open case

A pocket globe at the Harvard Archives

Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe

by Jacob Sweet

The “Rocking Horse Graveyard,” in Lincoln, Massachusetts

New England’s Oddities

Exploring New England’s more unusual sites with J.W. Ocker

by Nell Porter-Brown

Hikers stand in Purgatory Chasm, near Worcester, Massachusetts

Exploring Worcester, Massachusetts, and Purgatory Chasm

Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester

by Nell Porter-Brown

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.

by Nina Pasquini

Jenny F. So reinterprets Harvard’s Winthrop collection

A fresh, up-close look at the Winthrop collection

by John S. Rosenberg

Historic New England’s Eustis Estate

Historic New England’s Eustis Estate

by Nell Porter-Brown

Kay Kenny’s nighttime photographs at the Griffin Museum

Photographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Apollo 11, Up Close and Personal

An exhibition in Houghton Library shows Apollo 11 in context, and at its most intimate.

by Jacob Sweet

Harvard’s Houghton Library to be renovated

A renovation to make Houghton Library “open to all”

by Jacob Sweet

Harry Elkins Widener, profiled by Daniel Blank

Brief life of Harry Elkins Widener, theater-loving bibliophile: 1885-1912

by Daniel Blank