Museums & Collections


Doctors for Change

Countway Library exhibit explores historic anti-nuclear activism

by Nell Porter-Brown

Babar Comes to Houghton Library

Houghton hosts an exhibit of the green suit-wearing French elephant through August 31. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Chinese Pottery: The First Five Millennia

An exhibition of prehistoric earthenware deepens understanding of early Chinese cultures and communities.

by John S. Rosenberg

The Plant Prospectors

Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.

by Jonathan Shaw

A Queen's Seat

“Experimental archaeology” at the Harvard Semitic Museum

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

The Animals’ Kingdom

Debra White built the Winslow Farm Animal Sanctuary in Norton, Massachusetts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Winslow Homer's Early Days

A mansion promotes artist Winslow Homer’s roots in Belmont, Massachusetts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Planting Seeds of Culture

Native American women are the focus of photographer Matika Wilbur’s Radcliffe exhibit. 

by Laura Levis

Bard in the Yard

Celebrating four centuries of Shakespeare at Harvard

by Olivia Munk

Preserving a Muse

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem muse was preserved by philanthropist Caroline Emmerton.

by Nell Porter-Brown

"Art Is a Dark Mirror"

Ellen Harvey's installations offer "complicated gifts" to the viewer.

by Olivia Schwob