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

Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments on display

At last, Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments has come up from its hiding place....

by Christopher Reed

Designs for the Dance

When impresario Serge Diaghilev launched his Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, he injected into the tired corpus of European ballet a massive...

An entomologist at work on the Encyclopedia of Life

In the Dominican Republic, a project to write the first chapter in the encyclopedia of life

by Jonathan Shaw

Who Built the Pyramids?

Not slaves. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.

by Jonathan Shaw