Online Workshop Instructor: Erica Beade Price: $35 members / $40 nonmembers Join us for this two-hour online workshop where we’ll explore how sketching can be a practice for deepening mindful awareness of our surroundings, and how mindful awareness can enrich our sketching practice by helping us quiet inner voices. Using natural objects as our subject…
ArtsThursdays at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA Free In-Person Event Join us for a free night at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. Come with a date, come with friends, or make new friends while strolling through the galleries. All ages are welcome. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford…
Fossil Day
In-Person Special Event Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 What treasures are found in the Harvard University paleontology collections? Meet Harvard paleontologists to find out! See their favorite fossils, learn about their research, and ask them your questions. Join us to celebrate Fossil Day with short talks and table-top presentations…
Growing Beauty: How Growth in Nature Creates Spirals and Fractals
Online Workshop Instructor: Rachel Mirus Price: $35 members / $40 nonmembers Familiar natural shapes, like spirals or the branching of plants, recur in fascinating and beautiful diversity, and are often the result of simple patterns for growth. We will use observational drawing to explore a few of the many kinds of spirals, branching patterns, and…
HMSC December Member Party
In-Person Member Event Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Advance registration required by December 8. Welcome the winter season with HMSC’s most popular member event. Registration is now open. Not a member? Join now so you can join us in December! Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Presented by the…
Games of the Ancient Near East: Teen Saturdays Workshop
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge Leer en español In-Person Youth Program, ages 13-18 Saturday, December 13, 1:00–3:30 pm Advance registration required Travel back in time and explore some of the world’s oldest board games from the ancient Near East! In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn the origins of games like…
Science Spotlights: Short of Breath? Here’s a Rock
In-Person Presentation Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor), 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA Speaker: Federica Calabrese, Postdoctoral Fellow, Girguis Lab Meet up-and-coming scientists and learn about questions at the forefront of research today in this series of short talks. 2:00–2:30 pm Short of Breath? Here’s a Rock When we think of electricity,…