News

• Measuring Difference Exhibition Illustrates What—and Who—Was Measured in the “New World”
• Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination Exhibition Opens at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on June 29
• A Discussion about Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, and New Photo Exhibition at the Peabody Museum with Photographer Wendel White
• 50 Years at the Farlow: A Conversation with Don Pfister
• New in the Glass Flowers gallery: The Blaschkas at the Microscope: Lessons in Botany
• A Conversation with Amphibian Biologist and Photographer, S.D. Biju
• Wendel A. White Photo Exhibition, Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, to Open at Harvard’s Peabody Museum May 18
• Augmented Reality Experience Brings Ancient Assyrian Sculptures to Life at Harvard Museum
• Ants and Termites: Nature’s Super Organisms opens in the Harvard Museum of Natural History Arthropods gallery
• The Art of Intimidation: A Journey to Ancient Assyria with Adam Aja, Chief Curator at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
• Introducing Caroline Fernald, HMSC’s New Executive Director
• Seasoned Museum Leader Caroline Jean Fernald Steps into the Role of Executive Director at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
• A Conversation with Elizabeth Solinga, HMSC’s New Administrative Director
• Caroline Fernald Named Director of Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
• Caring for the Invertebrate Zoology Collections with Adam Baldinger, Collections Manager of the Invertebrate Zoology Collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology
• Curating the Peabody Museum’s North American Collections with Curator Stephanie Mach
• Where We Belong: Tree Chuangs
• Introducing Hannah Marcus, Incoming Faculty Director for the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
• Making Meaning of Surveillance: A Conversation about a New Exhibition at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
• The Journey Home: Repatriating the Gitxaała Totem Pole
• Surveillance: From Vision to Data poses timely questions about the history of surveillance
• Growing Up in the Harvard Museum of Natural History
• Making the Museum Accessible to Latino Teens through HMSC’s Hear Me Out Program
• HMSC Turns 10! A Conversation with Leadership, Past and Present
• Journey of a Visual Anthropologist with Ilisa Barbash, Curator of Visual Anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
• Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Celebrates 10 Years of Inspiring Curiosity, Offers Free ArtsThursdays
• Theresa Goell’s Archaeological Legacy with Archaeologist Donald Sanders
• Piecing Together Stories of the Mesoamerican Past with Peabody Archaeologist Jenny Carballo
• Accessing Nature and Science with Scott Edwards, Curator of Ornithology for the Museum of Comparative Zoology
• The World According to Natural History Diorama Artist, Terry Chase
• Celebrating Egyptology’s Big Anniversary with HMANE Director Peter Der Manuelian
• Caring for the MCZ’s Collections with Breda Zimkus, Director of Collections Operations, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
• Swimming with Sharks: A Deep Dive into Shark Biology and Behavior reveals the mysterious lives of sharks in the wild
• Exploring Aztec Moments with Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America
• The Power of Observation with Underwater Photographer, Keith Ellenbogen
• Learning about Early Christianity through Objects and Literature with Annewies Van Den Hoek
• The New Glass Flowers Exhibition From the Hands of the Makers Now Open in the Harvard Museum of Natural History
• The Art of Keeping Time with Richard Ketchen, Horologist for the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
• Reflecting on Geechee Traditions with Master Basket Maker, Yvonne Grovner of Sapelo Island, Georgia
• Reading Planets through Rocks: A Conversation with Andrew Knoll
• An Interview with the Host, HMSC’s Exhibit Developer, Writer and Podcaster, Jennifer Berglund
• Henry David Thoreau’s vast botanical collection inspires the new exhibition In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss
• In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Art + Science Conversation with Biologist Emily Meineke & Artists Robin Vuchnich & Leah Sobesy
• From Gymnastics to Paleontology: A Conversation with Stephanie Pierce
• Healing the Scars of the Past: A Conversation with Sarah Clunis, Curator of African Collection at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
• State of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture with Executive Director Brenda Tindal
• Transforming the Museums with Teens, a Conversation with Julia Szejnblum, Former Coordinator of the Escúchame/Hear Me Out Project at HMSC
• Exploring History through Plants and Glass: A Conversation with Michaela Schmull
• The Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Welcome Visitors Back on Friday, November 26
• Forgotten Scientific Histories of Many Mexicos, A Conversation with Gabriela Soto Laveaga
• Exploring Ancient Deep Sea Shipwrecks with Dana Yoerger, Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• A Lifetime of Natural History with Gonzalo Giribet, incoming Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
• Twenty Years of the MCZ with James Hanken
• Reflections on Repatriation with Philip Deloria
• Maine, Monkeys, and Museums: A Conversation with Outgoing HMSC Director of Exhibitions Jan Sacco
• A Walk in the Woods with John O’Keefe, Forest Ecologist at Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA
• Reflections of An Anthropologist: A Conversation with Peabody Curator of North American Ethnography, Castle McLaughlin
• Visualizing Science: From Black Holes to the Future with Peter Galison, Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
• HMSC Welcomes New Executive Director Brenda Tindal
• Museums as Centers for Courageous Inquiry – A conversation with Brenda Tindal, new Executive Director of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
• Cultivating a Climate of Empathy with Kiana Ziadkhanpour and Charles Hua, Harvard Juniors/Sustainability Advocates
• 21st Century Reflections on the Study of Ancient Egypt with Peter Der Manuelian, Director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
• The Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Celebrates Women’s History Month with the Online Exhibit, Women of the Museum, 1860–1920: Behind-the-Scenes at the Museum of Comparative Zoology
• Painting Connections Between Parallel Worlds with artist Lily Simonson
• Exploring Animal Behavior through Expressive Storytelling with Caroline Hu, Artist and Evolutionary Neuroscientist in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
• HMSC Inclusion Statement
• Narcissism, Freud, and the Future of Psychotherapy – A conversation with Elizabeth Lunbeck, Historian of Psychological Sciences
• The Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Present a New Online Exhibit on Sigmund Freud’s Research & Artwork
• Unraveling the Mysteries of Planet Formation with Harvard Geophysicist Rebecca Fischer
• Lizards, Snakes, and Frogs…Oh Yeah! with José Rosado, Curatorial Associate in Herpetology
• “Preserving Cultural Objects” – A Conversation with Judy Jungels, Conservator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
• A Fascinating World of Viruses with Microbiologist Hannah Gavin
• Unlocking the Secrets of Regeneration with Mansi Srivastava, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology
• Preserving Cultural Heritage with Archaeologist Joseph Greene
• My Unique Path Into The Museum World – A Conversation with HMSC Public Programs Director Diana Xochitl Munn
• Wampanoag Perspectives on Museum Objects with Elizabeth Perry and Meredith Vasta
• A Journey to the Glass Flowers—A Conversation with Jenny Brown
• Hear Me Out Harvard Museums of Science & Culture to Feature Photos and Videos by Hispanic Teens
• Designing Museum Exhibits – A Conversation with Exhibit Designer Sylvie Laborde
• Personalizing the Lives of Ancient Egyptians with Jennifer Thum
• Challenges and Change for Women of Color in Science – A Conversation with Evelyn Hammonds, Chair and Professor of the History of Science
• Historic Challenges for Harvard Women of Science with Sara Schechner
• 19th Century Women at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology with Reed Gochberg
• Diving with A Purpose: A Conversation with Marine Scientist Dr. Albert Jose Jones
• Navigating by Nature: A Conversation with Physicist John Huth
• What Can Sharks Teach Us? with Marine Biologist Molly Gabler-Smith
• Reflections on the Pacific Islands with Museum Curator Ingrid Ahlgren
• Food and Status: A Discussion with Historian Joyce Chaplin
• Uncovering Earthquakes with Computational Scientist Brendan Meade
• Pondering Distant Suns with Munazza Alam
• Diving Deep for Oceans Week with Peter Girguis
• Exploring the Power of Objects with Peabody Museum Steward with Diana Zlatanovski
• Instruments of Technology & Science with Dave Unger
• Archaeology of the Ancient World with Adam Aja
• Andrew Williston and the Museum’s Big Collection of Fishes
• The Harvard Museum of Natural History Secures a Lunar Sample from NASA for Cosmic Origins Exhibition
• Jane Pickering Named New Director of Peabody Museum
• The Harvard Museum of Natural History Presents a New Climate Change Exhibit Exploring the Global Impact of the Warming Climate on the Planet
• Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Welcomes 300,000th Visitor
• Lily Simonson: Painting the Deep Exhibition to Open June 30, 2018 at Harvard Museum of Natural History