Museums & Collections
Doctors for Change
Countway Library exhibit explores historic anti-nuclear activism
by Nell Porter-Brown
“Going Aboard?”
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
by Evander Price
Steampunk’s Sole
Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.
by Nell Porter-Brown
“Beyond Words”: Beauty and History Converge at Houghton
A new exhibit highlights how medieval monasticism’s “cult of the book” transmitted beauty and knowledge to the modern world.
by Lily Scherlis
The Bruce Museum
The Bruce Museum highlights “Science in Motion” in Greenwich, Connecticut.
by Aidan Langston
Boston Fire Museum
Children and adults alike are drawn to this eclectic array of firefighting artifacts.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Illuminations
Little-known treasures from Houghton Library and other collections
by John S. Rosenberg
Beauty from Disarray
From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”
by Violet Baron
Reading Tea Leaves
Digitized herbaria collections data allow researchers to predict future plant ranges.
by Jonathan Shaw
Innovation-Colonial Style
The Saugus Iron Works highlights early U.S. industrial history
by Nell Porter-Brown
Pranks in Pusey Library
A retrospective on the Lampoon’s 140 years of mischief
by Aidan Langston