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.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Dumbarton Oaks exhibit “Juggling the Middle Ages” is previewed

A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.

by Sophia Nguyen

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

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Twyla Tharp’s “Minimalism and Me”

A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Stevens-Coolidge Place winter activities

Winterlights and scavenger hunts at the historic Stevens-Coolidge Place

by Nell Porter-Brown

“Time is Now: Photography in Baldwin’s Era” exhibit at the Carpenter Center

Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.

by Brandon J. Dixon

James Baldwin’s America, in Photos

A fresh look at the writer’s work and influences

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Remembering 1969 at Harvard

An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.

by Brandon J. Dixon

“Shifting Sands”: photos from the Peabody Museum

Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari

by Sophia Nguyen