(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…
Glass Flowers Gallery to Open May 21, 2016 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
(Cambridge, MA) The Harvard Museum of Natural History announces the renovation and remodeling of its signature gallery exhibiting the internationally acclaimed Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, popularly called the Glass Flowers. The Glass Flowers gallery, which first opened in April 1893, has been closed to the public since late November 2015, and will reopen on Saturday, May 21,…
Harvard University and Boston Athletic Association Partner to Offer Native American Running: Culture, Health, Sport
(CAMBRIDGE, MA) April 18, 2016 is the 120th running of the Boston Marathon, the premier international celebration of endurance, running, fitness and community. It is also the 80th anniversary of the 1936 victory of Ellison “Tarzan” Brown, a Narragansett Native American, whose surge past John A. Kelley on the Newton Hills led to the naming of…