Museums & Collections

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

Bees and Flowers Are Falling Out of Sync

Scientists are revisiting an old way of thinking about extinction.

by Andrés Muedano

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

The 1853 Homer House in Belmont

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

Salem's House of the Seven Gables survives

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

Artist Ellen Harvey holds a "dark mirror" to the museum world

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

by Olivia Schwob

Harvard public health dean, museum director, more

A new dean for public health, a new director for the art museums, and more

Harvard Portrait: Ethan Lasser

A Harvard Art Museums curator on how artworks talk to one another, and to us

by Lydialyle Gibson