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.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Boston Fire Museum highlights firefighting history

Children and adults alike are drawn to this eclectic array of firefighting artifacts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Pranks in Pusey Library

A retrospective on the Lampoon’s 140 years of mischief

by Aidan Langston

Babar Comes to Houghton Library

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

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard exhibition of Neolithic Chinese pottery

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

by John S. Rosenberg

The 1853 Homer House in Belmont

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Arnold Arboretum’s 10-year plan for plant collecting

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

by Jonathan Shaw

The Harvard Giza Project rebuilds a 4,500-year-old Egyptian throne

“Experimental archaeology” at the Harvard Semitic Museum

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Winslow Farm Animal Sanctuary

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

Matika Wilbur photographs of Native American women on exhibit at Radcliffe

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

by Laura Levis

Houghton Library Celebrates the Quatercentenary of Shakespeare's Death

Celebrating four centuries of Shakespeare at Harvard

by Olivia Munk