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.
Open Book: Bruegel’s Crowd Paintings
Crowd painting that attracts crowds.
Political pins for women
A century of mini political mileposts
The New Bedford Whaling Museum's Moby-Dick marathon
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Steampunk art at the Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.
“Illuminated manuscripts in Boston collections” displayed in three-site exhibit
A new exhibit highlights how medieval monasticism’s “cult of the book” transmitted beauty and knowledge to the modern world.
"Beyond Words" showcases Greater Boston illuminated manuscripts
Little-known treasures from Houghton Library and other collections
Radcliffe alumna Judith Brodsky, on printmaking and risk-taking
From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”
by Violet Baron
Harvard's New England plant collections published online
Digitized herbaria collections data allow researchers to predict future plant ranges.
Saugus Iron Works replicates colonial-era industry
The Saugus Iron Works highlights early U.S. industrial history
The Bruce Museum shows “Science in Motion” in Greenwich, Connecticut
The Bruce Museum highlights “Science in Motion” in Greenwich, Connecticut.