The Harvard Art Museums announced a gift of 38 pieces of artwork Monday to supplement the University’s existing contemporary American art collection.

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The Arthur M. Sackler Museum kept its doors open after hours Thursday night for a special event entitled “Science and Superstition Night at the Sackler.”

As the Museum of Comparative Zoology staff prepares to move 80,000 mammal specimens—and a few live humans, too—into larger facilities in the Northwest Science Building, employees say they are going to miss the old-world character of their current building on Oxford St., which is over 120 years old.

A U.S. district court judge ruled Thursday that Harvard can keep a collection of Persian tablets.

The Arthur M. Sackler Museum faces an uncertain future as renovations of the Fogg Art Museum near completion, slated for late 2013.

When the Arthur M. Sackler Art Museum opened its doors in October 1985, many involved in the project dubbed its completion “The Miracle on Quincy Street.”