Museums & Collections

Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.

Harvard’s Plant Collection Meets Space Science

Light-based analysis of botanical collections link plants to Earth’s changing climate.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard exhibition designer Justin Lee, profiled

Justin Lee's essential, “invisible,” work at the Harvard Art Museums

by Lily Scherlis

Peabody Museum 150th anniversary exhibition anthropology

The Peabody Museum 150th is a showcase for the origins and evolution of anthropology.

by John S. Rosenberg

Springtime at Mount Auburn Cemetery

Springtime at Mount Auburn Cemetery

by Nell Porter-Brown

American bird art in Canton, Massachusetts

A trip to Mass Audubon’s unique art museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Celebrating John F. Kennedy

Centennial celebrations for John F. Kennedy in Brookline

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Houghton Library 75th anniversary exhibition

A humanistic “masterclass” for Houghton Library's seventy-fifth anniversary

When entrepreneurship lifted off in Cambridge

Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston

by John S. Rosenberg

New Hampshire's Star Island offers wild beauty and meaningful retreats.

Wild beauty and meaningful retreats on New Hampshire’s Star Island

by Nell Porter-Brown

Peabody Essex Museum's wearable-art exhibit

Fashion collides with high art at the Peabody Essex Museum.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Public Health Museum in Tewksbury, Massachusetts

Artifacts used to fight American epidemics, at the Public Health Museum in Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown