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.
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.
Harvardians promote diversity through art and football
Steven Coit's portraits diversify Harvard's walls, and the 1947 football team defies racism.
Harvard Library digital exhibition on the magic of reading
A sampler from the Harvard University Library's online collection Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History.