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The Harvard Art Museums bring to light the intrinsic power of art and promote critical looking and thinking for students, faculty, and the public.
Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums bring to light the intrinsic power of art and promote critical looking and thinking for students, faculty, and the public.
Browse Our Collections - Harvard Art Museums
Explore our collections: approximately 250,000 objects from the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums. The vast collection contains objects spanning from c. 7000 BCE to 2014.
Plan Your Visit - Harvard Art Museums
Admission is free to all visitors every day, made possible by a generous contribution from the Estate of David Rockefeller and support from the Office of the President at Harvard University. Explore over 50 galleries of art across three floors. Please check in at the Visitor Services desk upon arrival to allow us to share information about special exhibitions, gallery tours, programs, …
Exhibitions - Harvard Art Museums
Current A Colloquium in the Visual Arts. August 31, 2024–January 5, 2025 University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums The Harvard course A Colloquium in the Visual Arts (Humanities 20) is an introduction to the study of the humanities through major works of art and architecture from around the world: everything from ancient Greek vases and Japanese woodblock prints …
Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums hold one of the first and largest collections relating to the Bauhaus, the 20th century’s most influential school of art and design.
Plan Your Visit - harvardartmuseums.org
Admission is free to all visitors every day, made possible by a generous contribution from the Estate of David Rockefeller and support from the Office of the President at Harvard University. Explore over 50 galleries of art across three floors. Please check in at the Visitor Services desk upon arrival to allow us to share information about special exhibitions, gallery tours, programs, …
The Art of Looking: 150 Years of Art History at Harvard
“Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands think for one who can see.” —John Ruskin In 1874–75, the Harvard University course catalogue offered for the first time a series of electives in the history of art. These included two classes in the history of fine arts, taught by Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), and a drawing class, taught by Charles Herbert …
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light - Harvard Art …
Discover how American watercolorists from Winslow Homer to Hannah Wilke leveraged the imaginative and experimental capacity of the medium to create marvelously diverse works over more than a century. Into the Light presents 100 compelling and rarely seen watercolors by well-known and historically underrepresented American artists selected from the Harvard Art …
History - harvardartmuseums.org
The Harvard Art Museums are comprised of three museums—the Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, and Arthur M. Sackler Museum—each with a different history, collection, guiding philosophy, and identity.