Harvard Art Museums

Dr. Sarah Clunis examines the role of the Benin Bronzes, court regalia taken by British forces from Benin's palace and currently in Harvard's collections, in a network of trade and cultural contact.

Join curator Joachim Homann for an in-depth tour of Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape.

Discover how ancient Mesopotamian kings presented themselves as builders and why, even now, Babylon is a metaphor for ambitious constructions.

Issues of cultural identity, patriotism, and prejudice are explored in Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s bold and introspective drawing Last Act.

Watch an iconic 90s teen flick that adapts Jane Austen’s Emma for a contemporary context, focusing on female friendship and empowerment.

Join us to learn more about our latest special exhibition, Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment.

Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment.

Join museum staff for a fresh look at objects in the collections through the lens of various topics.

Join Georgina Rayner and Susanne Ebbinghaus to explore the original context, materials, and making of funerary portraits from Egypt.

Watch an award-winning film about two teenage girls who travel to seek medical help after an unintended pregnancy.

Join us for an afternoon of live music in the Calderwood Courtyard, hosted by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA)!

Brandon Calderón explores how Hispanic art emerged from a mixture of Spanish colonization and the resistance of Indigenous traditions.

All day long, we’re offering free admission for two as part of Museum Day, an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine.

Join us for a focused talk on color printmaking in the exhibition Dare to Know, with Margaret Morgan Grasselli.

Make sure you’re ready to vote by registering on National Voter Registration Day, here at the Harvard Art Museums.

Interested in art of the ancient world? Explore ancient painting processes and make your own copy of a Roman-period funerary portrait.

Conservator Christina Taylor shows what we can discover about Louis Delsarte’s artistic process by taking a closer look at this lithograph.

Curious about the origins of camera-less photography or photograms? Join us to learn how to make prints from plant materials!

Join exhibition curators Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson for an in-depth tour of Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape.

This talk examines how gender and otherness are represented in a 15th- to 16th-century Chinese painting that presents visions of the afterlife.

Join us for the premiere of the longest-running youth film festival in the country! A panel discussion with the teen filmmakers will follow.

In this talk, two curators discuss what a 120-year-old Zeiss photographic laboratory microscope can tell us about science and art making.

Curious about the origins of camera-less photography or photograms? Join us to learn how to make cyanotypes!

Join exhibition curator Susan Anderson for an in-depth tour of Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape.

Join exhibition curator Susan Anderson for an in-depth tour of Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape.

A discussion of works by Jozef Israëls and his contemporaries, offers insights into the transformation of figure studies from an academic discipline into a vehicle for denouncing social injustice.

Join Egyptologist Jen Thum for an engaging look at the results of new research on the tomb relief of Ptahshepses Impy, an Egyptian official.

Join Ben Sibson, a graduate student at Harvard in human evolutionary biology, for a conversation about how art can enhance our understanding of the evolution of human health.

During this in-person talk, curator Mary Schneider Enriquez and artist Krzysztof Wodiczko will discuss the artist’s groundbreaking work.

In this in-person lecture, Christiane Baumgartner will talk about her recent work, her ideas about graphic art, and how she “reads” an image.

Join us in person for a close look at the special exhibition White Shadows, with curator Lynette Roth and artist T. Deutch.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, three Student Guides will discuss the portrayal of womanhood in three prints from the collections.

In this in-person lecture, author David Treuer looks at the current state of affairs for Native and Indigenous peoples in the United States.

Join us in person for a close look at the special exhibition White Shadows, with curator Lynette Roth and conservator Penley Knipe.

We’re keeping our doors open late on the last Thursday of every month for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

In this tour, Adam Sella will explore the color blue in three works of art.

Join us April 20 as we extend free admission to all visitors, thanks to the Highland Street Foundation.

In conjunction with Social Fabrics, Jochen Sokoly will give an in-person lecture on styles of dress during the early Islamic period.

In this tour, Paul Tamburro will look at works of art featuring cats in various roles.

Join us for this family-friendly virtual talk to learn more about artworks inspired by this mythical creature.

Join us for an introduction and guided look at the exhibition Prints from Brandywine, with graduate intern An Hoang.

Join us for an introduction and guided look at the exhibition Prints from Brandywine, with graduate intern An Hoang.

A conversation at the intersection of American art and Native expertise and presence.

Admission to the museums is free April 30 for all visitors, in celebration of Harvard’s annual campus-wide arts festival.

Librarian Lillianne Keaney and conservator Penley Knipe discuss the cyanotype photograms of Anna Atkins.

Explore drawings by Dutch artists who ventured beyond their country’s borders—whether to other parts of Europe or across oceans.

We’re keeping our doors open late on the last Thursday of every month for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Towns, farms, waterways, and woods—discover how Rembrandt, Van Goyen, Van Ruisdael, and more approached these subjects as meditations on humankind’s relationship with the environment.

Enjoy an afternoon of music in the light-filled Calderwood Courtyard.

Join us for an introduction and guided look at the exhibition Prints from Brandywine, with student intern Hannah Chew ’23.