Halloween at Harvard and Beyond

Check out these events, both spooky and sweet, coming your way this Halloween.

Ben Wilcox '13 leads a docent tour of the permanent Modern and Contemporary Art collection, which was originally housed in the Fogg Museum (now under renovation). Harvard's art museums feature student-led tours and discussions of pieces during regular hours to help engage and educate visitors.

Sackler Stays Open Late for Students

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.”

Science and Superstition

The Harvard Art Museum Undergraduate Council sponsors the event “Science and Superstition” Thursday night at the Sackler. Attractions include tours, print making, and a performance by the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones.

College Night at the MFA

Students from across Boston enjoy College Night at the MFA

Swoon’s mural, “Anthropocene Extinction” includes a 400-pound suspended bamboo sculpture.

A new exhibit features wildlife and flora of the New England forests. On Display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Museum of Comparative Zoology Plans for Expansion to Northwest Labs

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.

From the archives

A new exhibit features wildlife and flora of the New England forests. On Display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Judge: Harvard Can Keep Artifacts

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

Today in Photos (09/14/11)

Photographs from the September 14, 2011, edition of The Harvard Crimson.

Specimens await restoration in the Museum of Natural History’s Great Mammal Hall. Efforts are now underway to repair many of the museum’s historic displays, which have withstood years of non-climate controlled conditions.

The exhibit, “Global Patterns: Dress and Textiles in Africa” will be on display at the MFA until January 8, 2012.

The striped exterior of the Sackler—originally planned to be colored pink and green—drew mixed reviews from the community as the building neared completion

Sackler Museum's Future Uncertain After Fogg Renovation

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

After a Decade, the Sackler Finally Opens Its Doors

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.”

Former Director of the Fogg Museum Seymour Slive shows a variety of concept sketches in the early planning stages of the Sackler Museum.

Harvard's President Drew Gilpin Faust takes a tour through the "Tangible Things" exhibit in the Science Center. The collection of two-hundred artifacts, a product of the class, "Tangible Things: Harvard Collections in World History" will be on display until May 29.

Harvard Persian Art Sells for $34 Million

When Stuart Cary Welch ’50—who served as a curator of Islamic and Indian art at the Harvard Art Museum until ...

Movers remove this stuffed elk out of the Museum of Natural History in preparation for a new exhibition opening May 21, 2011.

Patrons can view the Museum of Natural History’s “Great Mammal Hall” from above.

Atlas: Map and Myth, on display in CGIS south until April 10, features student art that examines the relationship between cartography, experience, and memory.

Week in Photos: Arts (03/29/2011)

Week in Photos: Arts (03/29/2011)

Digging for the Truth: The Indian College

The Peabody Museum is currently curating in exhibition which presents items they have linked to the Indian College found by students and faculty in an excavation undertook in Harvard Yard.