Tag: Collection

  • Campus & Community

    A collection of knowledge

    Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments has grown to 20,000 objects, making it one of the three largest university collections of its kind.

    3 minutes
    A glass door looking into a museum of Harvard historical instruments.
  • Arts & Culture

    Rare opportunity

    One of the most extensive collections of rare Chinese books outside China will be digitized and made freely available to scholars worldwide as part of a six-year cooperative project between the Harvard College Library (HCL) and the National Library of China.

    1 minute
  • Arts & Culture

    Sema Vakf Collection of Turkish Classical Music now available at Loeb Music Library

    Turkish-born businessman Altan Ender Güzey has ensured the traditional music from the Republic of Turkey is kept alive for future generations with a donation of the Sema Vakf Collection of Turkish Classical Music to the Loeb Music Library.

    4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard Film Archive acquires Just Film Stills

    Lothar and Eva Just have recently made their collection of film stills and other publicity materials available to the Harvard Film Archive (HFA).

    3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Libraries launch ‘Expeditions and Discoveries’

    Harvard’s Open Collections Program has launched “Expeditions and Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age.” Through the new collection, Internet users can find thousands of maps, photographs, and published materials, along with field notes, letters, and unique manuscript materials on sponsored exploration and related scientific discoveries between 1626 and 1953.

    2 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Mining a trove of old ballads gives women a new voice

    In the mid-1930s, Milman Parry, a professor in the Department of the Classics at Harvard, traveled throughout Yugoslavia to research and record folk songs. Assisted by his former student Albert Lord, Parry spent 15 months on the road and returned to Harvard with innumerable texts and sound recordings of more than 1,500 epic songs. Their…

    5 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    A renovated Woodberry Poetry Room

    This week the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room reopened after a summerlong renovation, reuniting scholars, poets, and poetry lovers with an unprecedented collection of books, pamphlets, magazines, broadsides, manuscripts, video recordings of poets, rare author photographs, and paintings and sculptures created by poets – in fact anything related to 20th and 21st century poetry.

    4 minutes