ArtsThursdays: Light Up the Museums!

Two women peering at tableware in the Resetting The Table exhibit

Harvard Museum of Natural History & Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Free Evening Event

Join us for a free night at two of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Enjoy handcrafted mocktails by CraftHouse Bartending and desserts in the galleries. Take some snaps in our photo booth, or lounge around in our light-up chairs while participating in museum-themed crafts. Food and drinks are complimentary, but supplies are limited so come early and stay late!

All Ages Welcome

ArtsThursdays is a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) 

This program is part of the HMSC 10-Year Anniversary Celebration.

About the Museums

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Visit the new exhibits Swimming with Sharks and In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, as well as the world-famous Blaschka Glass Flowers. Find your birthstone in the newly renovated mineral gallery, stand before giant tigers, and view dinosaur fossils in the paleontology gallery.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Explore towering Maya sculptures in the Latin American galleries and discover the early days of American anthropology as shown in the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. See nineteenth-century Plains Indian warrior art in an exhibit co-curated by Hunkpapa Lakota artist and tribal educator Butch Thunder Hawk.

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Visitors looking at minerals
Photo © Tony Rinaldo
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