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.”
Is knee osteoarthritis a mismatch disease?
Neither increased obesity nor longevity explains the doubling of knee osteoarthritis since World War II.
Harvard archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff
The University archivist on what it means to “document Harvard”
Harvard botanists hunt rare plants in China
The hunt for rare plants in China
Brief life of Henry Chapman Mercer, innovative ceramicist
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
Father Columba Stewart of Hill Museum & Manuscript Library is profiled
A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.
Games of old from Houghton Library
Amusements to dispel the winter blues
The Museum of Bad Art
A Somerville museum highlights art “so bad, it’s good.”
Newport’s winter activities
Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter
A New Cast for the Harvard Semitic Museum
A replica of the Dream Stele, part of Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian’s efforts to revitalize the museum
A Transformative Gift of Dutch Drawings
George Abrams ’54, J.D. ’57, donates his collection to the Harvard Art Museums.