Museums & Collections


An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight

A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment. 

by Nina Pasquini

Inside Harvard’s Home for Books

A new documentary explores the three million feet of shelving at the Harvard Depository.

by Stephanie Garlock

Thomas Lentz to Leave Harvard Art Museums

Just weeks after a gala reopening, the director announces plans to step down.

Buffed Up and Orderly

A new exhibition of birds of the world

by Christopher Reed

Lighting Up Mount Auburn Street

Another art museum opens—this one, a gallery for African and African-American Art.

by Sophia Nguyen

Images That Speak

The Griffin Museum of Photography’s winter exhibits

The New Art Museums, on Your Bookshelf

Lecture celebrates the release of American Art at Harvard, Volume One

An Art Laboratory for the Twenty-first Century

The renovated Harvard Art Museums open

“Beauty Will Save the World”

Welcoming the University community through a series of special talks and celebrations, the Harvard Art Museums re-introduce themselves.

Ready for a Reopening

Additional images of the Harvard Art Museums galleries

A New Place, a New Paradigm

Panelists bring their perspective to the long-awaited reopening of the Harvard Art Museums.