Exhibits

Exhibits tell the unique stories of our diverse collections. Visit one today.

Featured Exhibits

Making a Scene

The Boston-area rock scene of the 1970s-90s
Through Friday, Apr 18, 2025

Harvard by Hand: The Bow & Arrow Press at 45

Edison and Newman Room, Fall 2024
Through Friday, Jan 10, 2025

Archives Inside Out

Through Wednesday, Apr 30, 2025
An offprint of Frank Rosenblatt’s 1958 paper “The Perceptron” with three figures detailing the organization of a perception.

The Foundations of Artificial Neural Networks

Through Thursday, Dec 19, 2024
Location: Houghton Library
a man sits reading a newspaper in front of a statue of a devil holding a bow

Virtual: Collecting Along an Ellipse: Art and Ephemera from Eastern Europe

Through Wednesday, Jan 1, 2025
Location: Houghton Library
Overprinted elongated sheet of beige paper with a palimpsest of various marks made over the course of many printing sessions.

Harvard by Hand: The Bow & Arrow Press at 45

Through Friday, Jan 10, 2025
Location: Houghton Library
Threads through Time written in purple on gray background with examples of kimono fabrics

Threads Through Time

Through Friday, Jan 17, 2025
Location: Harvard-Yenching Library
Han Kang name on colorful background

Han Kang, Nobel Prize in Literature 2024

Through Friday, Jan 31, 2025
Location: Harvard-Yenching Library
1845 road map from Dublin to Wexford

Rivers & Roads

Through Friday, Jan 31, 2025
Location: Harvard Map Collection
Widener Library lobby image from above

Inside Widener Library

Through Saturday, Feb 15, 2025
Location: Widener Library
A montage of photos of a rat, with the text "Live at..."

Making a Scene

Through Friday, Apr 18, 2025
Location: Loeb Music Library
Camera Patent

From Concept to Product:

Through Friday, Apr 18, 2025
Location: Baker Library and Special Collections
Photo of eight women and one man in a classroom. Maury is seated in profile, third from left, peering into a magnifying glass.

Recent Acquisitions

Opens Monday, Jan 13, 2025
Location: Houghton Library
Archival box top reading "Archives Inside Out" with various documents, objects, and media surrounding it.

Archives Inside Out

Through Wednesday, Apr 30, 2025
Location: Harvard University Archives
Frontispiece of a woman seated and holding a quill pen, captioned, “Phillis Wheatley Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston.”

Classical Antiquity and the Legacy of Slavery at Harvard

Opens Monday, Jan 6, 2025
Location: Houghton Library
Frontispiece showing the legend of Archimedes using a parabolic mirror to set Roman ships on fire by focusing the sun’s rays.

Islamic Science in Early Modern Europe

Opens Monday, Jan 13, 2025
Location: Houghton Library
Illuminated manuscript page with floral decorative border framing the Annunciation scene with Gabriel, Mary, and an open book.

Incipit

Opens Monday, Jan 27, 2025
Location: Houghton Library
Old Japanese manuscript, ink brush calligraphy next to ink and watercolor painting.

From the Ephemeral to the Extraordinary

Through Sunday, Jun 1, 2025
Location: Harvard Law School Library
A Woman stands in front of an astronomy exhibition, looking up at a model of Saturn and other planets.

Harvard Lives

Through Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025
Location: Harvard University Archives
detail of an illustration of two men with Arabic text

Virtual: Picturing the Sultan

Through Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025
Location: Fine Arts Library
Welcome the public

Transformations

Through Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025
Location: Widener Library
A montage of 6 images of Indian women, including a group of women in saris sit outside sifting grain, and others posing by themselves or in pairs.

Virtual: Singing the Story of Dhrangadhra

Through Wednesday, Jun 30, 2027
Location: Loeb Music Library
78rpm disc with an illustrated label showing factory workers.

Virtual: Treasures of the Loeb Music Library

Through Wednesday, Jun 30, 2027
Location: Online