Museums & Collections
Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.
England’s First Sports Megastar
A collection of illustrations capture a boxer’s triumphant moment.
John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian
A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact.
A winter’s trip to Portland, Maine
Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”
Tale of Genji Illustrated
A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited
Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”
…and a possible clue in the stacks
Bed furnishings in early America
A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.
Pre-Columbian quipu exhibit at the MFA
“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA
Dumbarton Oaks exhibit “Juggling the Middle Ages” is previewed
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
Excerpt from “Scale & the Incas”
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
Animal-shaped vessels from around the world at the Harvard Art Museums
Drinking in style, from antiquity to the 1960s
Twyla Tharp’s “Minimalism and Me”
A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA