Museums & Collections

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

Radcliffe Acquires a Black Feminist’s Archive

An architect of Black women’s studies, Barbara Smith introduced the concepts of “identity politics” and “intersectionality.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Museum of Printing Massachusetts

A unique museum in Haverhill, Massachusetts, offers a history of graphic arts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Film Archive West African Women in Films

The Harvard Film Archive features works by director Rosine Mbakam

Artist Janiva Ellis at the Harvard Carpenter Center

Newly finished paintings unveiled 

David Gordon Mitten, Harvard Classicist, Professor, and Curator

An archaeologist/curator/hands-on humanist, and an artifact from the era of typewritten term papers

by Primus VI

Harvard Pioneering Mammalogist Barbara Lawrence

Brief life of an intrepid mammalogist: 1909-1997

by Jonathan Shaw

Celebrating the Farlow Herbarium’s Centennial

Harvard’s Farlow Herbarium at 100

by Jonathan Shaw

Made in Germany

German national identity at the Harvard Art Museums

by Olivia Farrar

Men and Their Castles

Historic New England explores the “bachelor decorators”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Boston’s USS Constitution and its Museum

USS Constitution—for all ages

by Max J. Krupnick

Art Made Out of Buttons

Works by Harlem-based artist Beau McCall at Brockton's Fuller Craft Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown