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50 Years at the Farlow: A Conversation with Don Pfister
Transcript Jennifer Berglund 0:04 Welcome to HMSC Connects, where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. My name is Jennifer Berglund, part of the exhibits team here at the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, and I’ll be your host. Today I’m speaking with Don Pfister, a professor…
New in the Glass Flowers gallery: The Blaschkas at the Microscope: Lessons in Botany
The special new exhibit in the Glass Flowers Gallery opens in the Harvard Museum of Natural History on Apr 20, 2024 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 16, 2024—The famous Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (the Glass Flowers) includes a series of models that illustrate the microscopic details of the life cycles of non-flowering, spore-forming…
A Conversation with Amphibian Biologist and Photographer, S.D. Biju
Transcript Jennifer Berglund 00:04 Welcome to HMSC Connects!, where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. My name is Jennifer Berglund, part of the Exhibits Team here, at the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, and I’ll be your…
Wendel A. White Photo Exhibition, Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, to Open at Harvard’s Peabody Museum May 18
“These artifacts are the forensic evidence of Black life and events in the United States.” —Wendel A. White A midcentury voting machine. A shoe, perhaps made and worn by an African American Civil War soldier. A pair of baby dolls from a famed science experiment. A lock of hair from the most photographed American of…
Augmented Reality Experience Brings Ancient Assyrian Sculptures to Life at Harvard Museum
In a new Snapchat feature, a richly garbed palace overseer welcomes visitors to the From Stone to Silicone exhibition at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East starting Friday, March 22, 2024. Palace overseer Dan-Assur (lower right) narrates an animated scene when a phone is aimed at a wall sculpture in the Harvard Museum…
Ants and Termites: Nature’s Super Organisms opens in the Harvard Museum of Natural History Arthropods gallery
The new gallery explores these superorganisms’ intersecting history, biology, and behavior CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 15, 2024— Arthropods: Creatures That Rule is a popular gallery in the Harvard Museum of Natural History that draws on Harvard research to explore arthropods’ extraordinary evolutionary success. It features a wide array of preserved creatures and live specimens. Ants and…
The Art of Intimidation: A Journey to Ancient Assyria with Adam Aja, Chief Curator at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Transcript Jennifer Berglund 00:04 Welcome to HMSC Connects!, where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. My name is Jennifer Berglund, part of the Exhibits Team here at the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, and I’ll be your…
Introducing Caroline Fernald, HMSC’s New Executive Director
Transcript Jennifer Berglund 00:04 Welcome to HMSC Connects!, where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. My name is Jennifer Berglund, part of the Exhibits Team here at the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, and I’ll be your…