Museums & Collections
Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.
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.
Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian
A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact.
Pre-Columbian quipu exhibit at the MFA
“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA
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.
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