Museums & Collections
Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.
At Harvard’s Peabody Museum, Photos Reimagine Iranian History
Artist Azadeh Akhlaghi reconstructs moments of Iranian political upheaval in a series of meticulously staged images.
Harvard renovates building to create new labs for stem-cell research
Harvard renews an older building to create new labs in Cambridge for stem-cell research.
Innovative museums highlight New England's industrial past
Innovative museums highlight New England's industrial past.
In photographs by Wang Di and Xing Danwen, Beijing as "urban utopia"
Two Beijing photographers interpret China's breakneck change from Communist revolution to market-based consumerism.
Update on Fogg Art Museum renovation
Gutting the Fogg Art Museum on the way to renovating it
Farlow Library exhibit on deadly Amanita mushrooms and mycological illustration
The Farlow Library's new online exhibits highlight the death cap mushroom and mycological illustration.
William James symposium in Cambridge and New Hampshire
An unusual symposium at Harvard and at James's summer residence this August will remember the life of the psychologist-philosopher.
A titan arum, a rare odoriferous plant, blooms at Harvard
A titan arum waxes and wanes.
Rare Titan Arum "Carrion Flower" Set To Bloom in a Harvard Greenhouse
An exotic Indonesian plant may well bloom into a flower more than six feet tall in the next few days.
Brief biography of Native American basket-maker Clara Darden
Brief life of an overlooked artist: c. 1829-1910. With images of Darden's masterpieces of river-cane basketry.
by Ivan Gaskell
American business embraces photography in the 1930s
Corporate culture embraces photography.