Update:

We have resumed some on-campus services, including book pickup, virtual consultations, and fulfilling scanning/digitization requests. Many library materials are available online, but our buildings remain closed until further notice.

Exhibits

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

Featured Exhibits

Virtual: Inside Widener Library

Explore the architecture and history of Harvard's famous Widener Library
Through Thursday, Jun 2, 2022

Harvard Library Welcomes New Harvard Faculty

Academic Year 2019–2020
Through Tuesday, Sep 1, 2020

Photography and Corporate Public Relations

The Case of U.S. Steel, 1930-1960
Through Tuesday, Oct 6, 2020
Portraits of faculty members hanging in the gallery

Harvard Library Welcomes New Harvard Faculty

Through Tuesday, Sep 1, 2020
Location: Widener Library
Taking a sample of steel for testing, Geneva Steel Plant

Photography and Corporate Public Relations

Through Tuesday, Oct 6, 2020
Location: Baker Library and Special Collections
Three men standing in front of a brick building. John F. Kennedy stands at the right, smiling, holding a hat.

Harvard Lives

Through Monday, May 31, 2021
Location: Harvard University Archives
Widener Library lobby image from above

Virtual: 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
Manuscript map of Bavaria from 1813

Virtual: Annotating the Landscape

Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Location: Harvard Map Collection
Prester John map

Virtual: The Story of Prester John

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