Ashton Stresses Global Ties in Europe’s Future

Catherine Ashton discussed the future of the European Union’s foreign policy at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum last night.

Fogg of the Future

In renovation, Harvard’s art museums seek greater visibility.

Fogg of the Future

Inside the hollowed shell of the Fogg Art Museum a 350-million-dollar transformation is underway.

In renovation, Harvard’s art museums seek greater visibility.

Two Free Events That Are Coming Up

We decided to give you the heads-up on two free events at museums around the area—just in case you wanted to add a little downtime to your iCal.

Overlooked Artist Discussed at Sackler

UCLA film professor Chon A. Noriega examined the life and works of the Latino artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz in the latest of the Latin American Leventritt Lecture Series held at the Sackler Museum last night.

Latin American Art Expert to Fill Associate Curator Position

The Harvard Art Museum has appointed Mary Schneider Enriquez ’81, an expert in Latin American art, to serve as an ...

Artifacts Take Their Rightful Place as Art

Etruscan, Greek, Chinese, and Islamic vases find a place among the vast collection of the Harvard Art Museum alongside the work of European masters like Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso.

Collections To Find New Home in Northwest Science Building

Five departmental collections in the Museum of Comparative Zoology are facing a yearlong move from their age-old home on Oxford St. into the basement of the Northwest Science Building, after a series of clouded administrative indecisiveness that prompted some confusion among the staff.

Linda Fang at the Sackler Museum

Linda Fang performs folk tales and other stories rooted in Chinese history and culture at the Sackler Museum.

Bizarre Animals

Bizarre Animals

Museum Houses A Bizarre Bazaar of Animals

For many, the words “natural history museum” may conjure up some fairly dry imagery: taxidermied beasts sitting tamely behind plate-glass windows, passive-aggressive signs warning patrons “please do not touch,” sterile exhibits scattered through maze-like hallways, and a gift shop by the exit to top it all off.

Lecture at the Semitic Museum

Several experts on archaeology from Harvard and institutions around the world came together yesterday evening at the Semitic Museum to deliver a lecture entitled "Writing History from Material Objects: New Light on Late Bronze Age Glass in Egypt and Mesopotamia."

Pictures and specimen of wildlife exhibiting their vibrant colors in nature.

Museum guest Andrea Paquin takes in the "Language of Color Exhibit" at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

The Wiyohpiyata exhibit at the Peabody is a sensory experience that immerses the visitor in the sounds, images, and even smells associated with Lakota culture.

National Treasures

Metal arm bands are neatly arranged by a pipe bag underneath a looming five-foot portrait of its owner: Sitting Bull, ...

The Wiyohpityata exhibit at the Peabody Museum is a sensory experience that immerses the visitor in the sounds, images, and even smells associated with Lakota culture.

Creative Responses to Hard Times

An evening under the stars with Jay O'Callahan

Last night in the Sackler Museum, Jay O’Callahan recites "Forged in the Stars", a story commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of NASA.

Creative Responses to Hard Times

Smithsonian Curator Analyzes Origins Of Food

A few hundred people crowded inside Geological Lecture Hall yesterday to hear Smithsonian curator Bruce D. Smith chronicle the evolution in human lifestyle from hunting and gathering to agriculture.

Photography speech at the Sackler

Michelle Lamunière, Assistant Curator of Photography at the Sackler Museum, gives a speech yesterday as part of the lecture series: In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently

Discovery Center

The Archeology Touch Box was a hit with the visitors in the Discovery Center at the Peabody Museum.

Peabody Museum Discovery Center

Families took shelter from the snow yesterday afternoon at the Peabody Museum Discovery Center, where curators were on hand to help with crafts and lessons devoted to learning about how ancient peoples dealt with the winter weather.

discovery center

Museum curators help young visitors understand the past through a variety of artistic and educational activities.