Museums & Collections

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

England’s First Sports Megastar

A collection of illustrations capture a boxer’s triumphant moment. 

by Nell Porter-Brown

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

The Dignity of Refugees in Helen Zughaib’s Painting

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

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

This Singer sewing machine has many facets

The multifaceted global and interdisciplinary impact of a useful object

Ukrainian-language collections housed at Harvard

One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Film Archive

Hidden gem: the Harvard Film Archive

by Nell Porter-Brown

Art, history, and food in Providence, R.I.

Car-free fun in downtown Providence

by Nell Porter-Brown

The only surviving residence designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany

Preserving Boston’s unique Ayer Mansion

by Nell Porter-Brown

Doris Salcedo gives form to tragedy at Harvard's "The Materiality of Mourning"

A powerful exhibit opens at the Harvard Art Museums.

by Sophia Nguyen