Exhibits

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

Featured Exhibits

Inside Widener Library

Harvard's famous Widener Library
Through Thursday, Jun 2, 2022

Virtual: The Story of Prester John

How Europeans made sense of the world prior to colonial expansion
Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022

Virtual: How Mapmakers Used Animals to Document the World

Explore how animals helped early European mapmakers understand the expanding world
Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Silhouettes of Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats facing each other with an Italian landscape in the background.

1820

Through Friday, Dec 3, 2021
Location: Houghton Library
Lithograph portrait of actor Ira Aldridge

Houghton Library Lobby Gallery

Through Friday, Dec 3, 2021
Location: Houghton Library
Quentin Roosevelt in France, 1918

Quentin Roosevelt and the Great War

Through Thursday, Dec 23, 2021
Location: Lamont Library
A Woman stands in front of an astronomy exhibition, looking up at a model of Saturn and other planets.

Harvard Lives

Through Saturday, Jan 1, 2022
Location: Harvard University Archives
Stuart Little

Animals Are Us

Through Friday, Jan 7, 2022
Location: Houghton Library
blue button that reads Tammy Baldwin for US Senate

Virtual: Redefining the Table—Diversifying U.S. Elections in the 2010s

Through Friday, Jan 14, 2022
Location: HKS Library and Knowledge Services
Widener Library lobby image from above

Inside Widener Library

Through Thursday, Jun 2, 2022
Location: Widener Library
A fanciful map of the world featuring animals

Virtual: How Mapmakers Used Animals to Document the World

Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Location: Harvard Map Collection
detail of an illustration of two men with Arabic text

Virtual: Picturing the Sultan

Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Location: Fine Arts Library
Prester John map

Virtual: The Story of Prester John

Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Location: Harvard Map Collection
Manuscript map of Bavaria from 1813

Virtual: Annotating the Landscape

Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Location: Harvard Map Collection
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 Thursday, Jun 30, 2022
Location: Loeb Music Library
black and white photograph of the moon

Virtual: Mapping the Moon in Black and White

Through Friday, Sep 30, 2022
Location: Harvard Map Collection
Yellow button that reads "Remember Rodney King. Racial justice now, from Boston to L.A.

Political Movements and Protest Pins since 1960

Through Saturday, Oct 15, 2022
Location: HKS Library and Knowledge Services
picture of a book interior, with a drawing of a jimson weed

Virtual: Unweeded — Guides to Villainous Vegetation

Through Saturday, Dec 3, 2022
Location: Lamont Library
Photograph of a man in orange monk's robes

Virtual: Learning a Life — Interacting with the Hindu Guru on the Shelf and in Practice

Through Saturday, Dec 3, 2022
Location: Lamont Library
Map of Hawaii

Virtual: Paradise Sought and Collected

Through Saturday, Dec 17, 2022
Location: Lamont Library