Museums & Collections
Discover treasures from Harvard’s museums and special collections, from ancient artifacts to modern art.
A Space-Age Project for Harvard’s Plant Collection
Light-based analysis of botanical collections link plants to Earth’s changing climate.
by Jonathan Shaw
Permafrost Fare
Soured Seal Liver, Anyone?
by Jacob Sweet
Telling Humanity’s Story through DNA
Geneticist David Reich rewrites the ancient human past.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Geeky Underground
Science-fiction zines and the quest to save Star Trek
by Nancy Walecki
Honoring a Life with Birds
A Concord Museum and Mass Audubon exhibit on William Brewster celebrates a new wildlife sanctuary
by Nell Porter-Brown
Interpreting the Universe
Mildred Thompson's abstract vision
by Nell Porter-Brown
Seafaring America
Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
by Craig Lambert
Blanche Calloway, Cab’s Enterprising Older Sister
The success and struggles of a pioneering musician
by Jacob Sweet
Springtime Antics at the Arnold Arboretum
Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
by Nancy Walecki
Photographs and Blackness, Barkley L. Hendricks
How the artist saw community—and the world
by Nell Porter-Brown
“That Human Element”
The Houghton debuts a digital collection of African-American primary sources.
by Lydialyle Gibson