Museums & Collections

Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.

Creepy Crawlies and Sticky Murder Weapons at Harvard

In the shadows of Singapore’s forests, an ancient predator lies in wait—the velvet worm.

by Olivia Farrar

What Birds’ Nests Tell Us

Inside the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s revealing birds’ egg and nest collection

by John S. Rosenberg

Litchfield’s Legal Eagles

Visiting America’s first formal law school

by Nell Porter-Brown

American Stories, in Wood

Marquetry artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor at the Addison Gallery of American Art

by Nell Porter-Brown

Medieval Disinformation?

A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Brenda Tindal Named Inaugural Chief Campus Curator

The position will oversee the visual culture and signage of the University.

by Nancy Walecki

Harvard Law School Partners with Royall House and Slave Quarters

Medford museum spotlights the historic link between wealth and human bondage.

by Nell Porter-Brown

"A Very Intimate and Painful Reckoning"

Dean Claudine Gay on the Native American hair clippings in Harvard’s holdings

by Lydialyle Gibson

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda

The Forgotten Jugglers

Vaudeville's mysterious Ader Brothers

by Nancy Walecki

Bodies in Motion

Inspiring new exhibit at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

by Nell Porter-Brown