Museums & Collections
Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.
This Connecticut Mine Was Once a Prison
The underground Old New-Gate Prison quickly became “a school for crime.”
Fall River: Phoenix Rising?
“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”
Reframing American Art
Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums
Attuned to Pianos
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
What Birds’ Nests Tell Us
Inside the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s revealing birds’ egg and nest collection
Litchfield’s Legal Eagles
Visiting America’s first formal law school
American Stories, in Wood
Marquetry artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor at the Addison Gallery of American Art
Medieval Disinformation?
A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.
Brenda Tindal Named Inaugural Chief Campus Curator
The position will oversee the visual culture and signage of the University.
Harvard Law School Partners with Royall House and Slave Quarters
Medford museum spotlights the historic link between wealth and human bondage.
"A Very Intimate and Painful Reckoning"
Dean Claudine Gay on the Native American hair clippings in Harvard’s holdings