Museums & Collections


Doctors for Change

Countway Library exhibit explores historic anti-nuclear activism

by Nell Porter-Brown

Land of the Living

Springtime at Mount Auburn Cemetery

by Nell Porter-Brown

Birds in Hand

A trip to Mass Audubon’s unique art museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Birthing a Legacy

Centennial celebrations for John F. Kennedy in Brookline

by Nell Porter-Brown

An “Enchanted Palace”

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

The Polaroid Moment

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

by John S. Rosenberg

Time Apart

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

Dress for Excess

Fashion collides with high art at the Peabody Essex Museum.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Elucidating Public Health

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Everyday Dignity of Helen Zughaib’s Refugees

The Lebanese-American painter depicts people who pay the price of war. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

An Orphaned Sewing Machine

The multifaceted global and interdisciplinary impact of a useful object