Museums & Collections
Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.
George Washington’s Sash on Display at Peabody Museum Starting May 25
A famous American fashion statement helps bring Revolutionary history to life.
The Children of Noah
A map showing “The Dispersal of the Children of Noah,” in an exhibit at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, reflects dispute by Puritan theologian Hugh Broughton...
Pulitzer Gift of Art Works and $45 Million Boosts Harvard Art Museum
Culminating her lifelong devotion to art collecting, connoisseurship, and scholarship—and a matching engagement with the University—Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M.
"Launched into Eternity"
Broadsides and hangings in old England...
Vintage Brevities
The Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library has recently become home to more than 10,000 map postcards...
Glass Jelly
The blue beauty at left is Porpita mediterranea rendered in glass, reproduced here at about twice life size. These jellies, moved by wind and...
History Bronzed
Harvard people with medals they aren’t sure what to do with have often given them to the University. Many of these impressions of history...
"Flim-Flam Finance"
The stock market plummets. Credit is tight. Bankers quake. Then J.P. Morgan organizes a consortium of financial saviors to provide cash to banks...
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....
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