Museums & Collections

Photograph of participants in a symposium on AI at Harvard

Teaching & Learning |

Artificial Intelligence in the Academy

Harvard symposium assesses the new technology.

by Jonathan Shaw

Philanthropist Edwin Binney with Helen Willard, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection

Features | January-February 2021

Edwin Binney, 3rd

Brief life of a philanthropic art collector: 1925-1986

by Madison U. Sowell

An historic photograph from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library archives shows the 1936 exhibition on women scientists—in this case, folders of their published scholarship.

Treasure | January-February 2021

Conservative Curation

“Women in Science” on display

by Alona Bach

Ornate eighteenth-century dress with wide hooped skirt

Harvard Squared | January-February 2021

“Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion”

Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion

by Nell Porter Brown

Three people in 1950s New York

Harvard Squared | January-February 2021

Picturing America

“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art

by Nell Porter Brown

Arts & Culture |

Up Close (Virtually) with the Forbes Pigment Collection

Harvard’s world-famous collection of colors can now be enjoyed from home. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Majestic twentieth-century stone castle perched on Gloucester coastline

Harvard Squared | November-December 2020

A Man and His Castle

Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal

by Nell Porter Brown

Photograph of Edo era fan depicting Mount Fuji and Mount Tsukuba on alternate sides

Treasure | November-December 2020

An Auspicious View

This folding fan enfolds two sacred mountains.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Detail of a handwritten page from suffragist Susan B. Anthony’s journal, used as an example of the kinds of manuscripts volunteers are transcribing for Harvard libraries and archives.

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2020

History, Crowdsourced

Volunteer transcribers help make Harvard library documents accessible.

by Diane E. Booton

Claude Monet's painting of clouds, fields, and poplars

Harvard Squared | November-December 2020

Hip-Hop Art and French Innovators

Winter exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts

by Nell Porter Brown

Outdoors at Boston's Armenian Heritage Park

Harvard Squared | November-December 2020

Urban Adventure Quest, Boston

Scavenger-hunting in historic Boston

by Nell Porter Brown