Museums & Collections
Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.
George Washington’s Sash on Display at Peabody Museum Starting May 25
A famous American fashion statement helps bring Revolutionary history to life.
"I once knew a girl": Carrie Mae Weems at Harvard's Cooper Gallery
Viewing Carrie Mae Weems’s art—and hearing her voice—at the Hutchins Center’s Cooper Gallery
John Singleton Copley and Harvard, by Jane Kamensky
When the College commissioned Copley
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.