Museums & Collections
Doctors for Change
Countway Library exhibit explores historic anti-nuclear activism
by Nell Porter-Brown
Benjamin Franklin’s Retirement and Reinvention
Two hundred and seventy years ago, Benjamin Franklin did something highly unusual. He retired.
by William N. Thor...
The New Rub on Knee Pain
Neither increased obesity nor longevity explains the doubling of knee osteoarthritis since World War II.
by Jonathan Shaw
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff
The University archivist on what it means to “document Harvard”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Botanizing in the “Mother of Gardens”
The hunt for rare plants in China
by Jonathan Shaw
Henry Chapman Mercer
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
by Nancy Freudenthal
From Here to Timbuktu
A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Games of Old
Amusements to dispel the winter blues
by Diane E. Booton
Renegade Tastemakers
A Somerville museum highlights art “so bad, it’s good.”
by Nell Porter-Brown
A Wintry Jaunt to Newport, Rhode Island
Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter
by Nell Porter-Brown
A New Cast for the Semitic Museum
A replica of the Dream Stele, part of Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian’s efforts to revitalize the museum
by Sophia Nguyen