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Harvard Museums

at Harvard University
Boston, MA
617-495-1000 (Harvard information)

www.harvard.edu

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From stuffed wombats to Renoir, you’ll find it in one of the Harvard Museums. Best known may be the glass flowers, astonishingly realistic glass botanical models made by process that died with their creator. Teddy Roosevelt’s catch from the African bush, meteorites and a dodo are only the beginning of the collections that share the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Adjoining is one of the world’s great museums of human cultures, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Drawing on archived collections, such as treasures collected by Lewis and Clark, exhibits show how art and artifact fit into local cultures, ancient and modern. For example, as you admire outstanding Native American arts from different periods and cultures, you learn how these changed as Europeans arrived. In a separate building, The Fogg Art Musem holds its own in a city filled with priceless fine art, with Winslow Homer, Van Gogh, Sargent, Whistler, painters of the Italian Renaissance and 19th-century French artists.


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