Tag: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography

  • Nation & World

    Though museums are closed, the work continues

    Since Harvard’s museums went online, staffs have tackled the enormous task of updating, adding, and editing data for millions of items housed in University collections.

    8 minutes
    The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
  • Nation & World

    ‘Scale’ tells the story of how, and what, we measure

    A cross-disciplinary exhibit at the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture uses a wide array of artifacts to examine the role of “Scale.”

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Lentz to step down

    After successfully rebuilding the Harvard Art Museums, and more than a decade at the helm, Director Thomas W. Lentz will step down on July 1.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The power of dreams

    Professor Kimberley C. Patton suggests dreams are “a language of enigmatic parable” that Western culture generally prefers to dismiss. “There’s a devaluation of dreams in the West,” said Patton, something the ancients would have found incomprehensible.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A march toward the arts

    The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.

    8 minutes