Museums & Collections
Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.
Radcliffe Acquires a Black Feminist’s Archive
An architect of Black women’s studies, Barbara Smith introduced the concepts of “identity politics” and “intersectionality.”
Sackler exhibition reveals artistic discovery in Renaissance Europe
An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.
Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials
Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials
Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts
Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts
Inventions in Early Modern Europe
Images from Stradanus’s "Nova reperta," a series of engravings representing technological innovations of the modern age from the perspective of a practicing artist
Harvard Archives launches website on Harvard in the 17th and 18th centuries
A new Archives website offers today's undergraduates a useful perspective on Harvard homework, and life, in the old days.
High-Tech Art Sleuthing
Conservators are using laser-assisted pigment analysis to identify and authenticate the work of modern artists.
Closeup of a work by sculptor Robert Gober at the Harvard Art Museums
Dysfunctional sink with body parts
A silver-gilt-sheathed coconut goblet links the Age of Discovery with the Bible
A coconut with Bible stories
Harvard art exhibit "Tangible Things"
An exhibition asks the meaning of things.
Inuit art at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
For centuries, a simple technology permitted people to survive the Arctic.