(Cambridge, MA) Exhibition to open February 17, 2018 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Thriving all around, and even within us, is a minute universe of astonishing and diverse lifeforms so small, they cannot be seen by the human eye. Microbial Life: A Universe at the Edge of Sight explores the fascinating realm of microbes, Earth’s first inhabitants,…
Online Exhibition: Islands: Evolving in Isolation Now Live
The Harvard Museum of Natural History announces a new online exhibition, Islands: Evolving in Isolation, a rich resource which has been developed from the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s 2015-2017 exhibition of the same name. With bizarre woodpecker-like primates, dwarf humans, and flightless birds over nine feet tall, islands are havens for some of the most unusual creatures on our planet. Why are islands such…
Scale: A Matter of Perspective: New Exhibition Opens Friday, March 10, at Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
(Cambridge, MA) Scale has long captivated the human imagination, as evidenced in classics like Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and in today’s popular movies and television shows. People spend hours making models that shrink or enlarge everyday objects and surroundings. They invent technologies to explore tiny realms or search vast stretches of the cosmos beyond sight. Scale: A Matter…
Next of Kin: Seeing Extinction through the Artist’s Lens, a new exhibition to open December 17 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
(Cambridge, MA) The Harvard Museum of Natural History announces a new experiential art exhibition, Next of Kin: Seeing Extinction through the Artist’s Lens opening December 17, 2016, featuring new photographic work by visual artist Christina Seely and an installation made in collaboration with the arts collective The Canary Project. Next of Kin will be on display through June 4, 2017. …
Opening in April: All the World is Here
(Cambridge, MA) On Saturday, April 22, 2017, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology will celebrate its 150th anniversary year by opening All the World Is Here: Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology. Unveiled within a beautifully restored 4th floor gallery, this new exhibition will feature an astonishing array of over 600 objects from Asia,…
Peabody Museum to Mark 150th Year: Free Admission Day, New Exhibition, Lecture Series, and More
The anniversary begins with free museum admission and birthday cake and continues with a year-long public lecture series on race, a major new exhibition in April about the museum’s significant role in the invention of American anthropology, and even more events through fall 2017. “This is one of world’s great museums, with a collection of…
New Exhibition to Open October 3, 2015 “Ocarinas of the Americas: Music Made in Clay”
(Cambridge, MA) This exhibit will feature over 100* spectacular examples of ocarinas from the Peabody Museum’s vast collection. Uncovered at archaeological sites in Central America and Mexico, these musical instruments were crafted from local low-fired clay and carefully fashioned, incised, and painted into a variety of human and animal forms. Visitors to this multisensory exhibit will hear…
Travel through time with new natural history collections on Google Arts & Culture
A new online experience by Google, the Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard in partnership with the Harvard Museum of Natural History and some of the most loved natural history institutions in the world, allows people to come face to face with Jurassic Giants and browse through the most spectacular collection of natural history available in one place….
Se Abrirá una Nueva Exhibición el 3 de octubre, 2015 Ocarinas de las Américas: Música hecha en Arcilla
(Cambridge, MA,) Esta exhibición presentará más de 100* espectaculares ejemplos de ocarinas de la vasta colección del Museo Peabody de la Universidad de Harvard. Descubiertos en sitios arqueológicos en Centroamérica y México, estos instrumentos musicales fueron hechos con arcilla local horneada a fuego lento, fabricados cuidadosamente, grabados y pintados en una variedad de formas humanas y de…
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Partner with the Highland Street Foundation to help Massachusetts Families See More Summer
Harvard Museum of Natural History to provide free admission on August 5, 2016 (Cambridge, MA) June 13, 2016 – Harvard Museum of Natural History announced today that it will provide free admission on Friday, August 5, 2016 as part of Highland Street Foundation’s 8thAnnual Free Fun Fridays summer event series. “Free Fun Fridays” has become an annual tradition that…