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Harvard Museums of Science & Culture Welcomes 300,000th Visitor
For the first time, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) topped 300,000 visitors in a single year since its formation in 2012. Dayu Huang of Boston, a Research Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was surprised to be greeted by HMSC Executive Director Jane Pickering on Friday, June 25. Surrounded by family, museum staff, and…
Lily Simonson: Painting the Deep Exhibition to Open June 30, 2018 at Harvard Museum of Natural History
(Cambridge, MA) Glowing under black lights, California artist Lily Simonson’s luminescent paintings embody a synergy between art and science that reveals new ways of seeing and understanding life forms in the deep ocean. “Being in the deep sea feels like being inside of a painting,” says Simonson, who embedded as Artist-in-Residence on three different oceanographic expeditions in the past…