Exhibits

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

Featured Exhibits

芳音如蘭 Sweet Sounds from Rulan Chao Pian

Through Wednesday, Aug 31, 2022

Harvard Lives

People. Discoveries. Change. History.
Through Sunday, Jan 1, 2023

In Black and White

Photographs of Black Theater by Alix Jeffry
Through Friday, Jul 22, 2022
detail of an illustration of two men with Arabic text

Virtual: Picturing the Sultan

Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Location: Fine Arts Library
Photograph of "Funnyhouse of a Negro."

In Black and White

Through Friday, Jul 22, 2022
Location: Houghton Library
Artists book containing text and images

Daily traces in the artists' books collection

Through Friday, Jul 22, 2022
Location: Fine Arts Library
Young men in tuxedos stand on statue of rhino outside of ivy-covered building

Still Singing

Through Sunday, Jul 31, 2022
Location: Harvard University Archives
Black man with short curly hair, wearing a white garment

Face to Face

Through Friday, Aug 5, 2022
Location: Houghton Library
Rulan Chao Pian, sitting outside surrounded by lush greenery, and smiling at the photographer. She is wearing a black collared shirt and cream blazer, and her greying dark hair is pulled back.

芳音如蘭 Sweet Sounds from Rulan Chao Pian

Through Wednesday, Aug 31, 2022
Location: Loeb Music Library
A female professor at HBS

From Inquiry to Action

Through Monday, Oct 31, 2022
Location: Baker Library and Special Collections
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
A Woman stands in front of an astronomy exhibition, looking up at a model of Saturn and other planets.

Harvard Lives

Through Sunday, Jan 1, 2023
Location: Harvard University Archives
blue button that reads Tammy Baldwin for US Senate

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

Through Tuesday, Feb 14, 2023
Location: HKS Library and Knowledge Services
Widener Library lobby image from above

Inside Widener Library

Through Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023
Location: Widener Library
A fanciful map of the world featuring animals

Virtual: How Mapmakers Used Animals to Document the World

Through Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023
Location: Harvard Map Collection
Manuscript map of Bavaria from 1813

Virtual: Annotating the Landscape

Through Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023
Location: Harvard Map Collection
Prester John map

Virtual: The Story of Prester John

Through Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023
Location: Harvard Map Collection
black and white photograph of the moon

Virtual: Mapping the Moon in Black and White

Through Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023
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 Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023
Location: HKS Library and Knowledge Services
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 Friday, Jun 30, 2023
Location: Loeb Music Library
Mosaic of covers of plays

Virtual: Reading Plays to Write Plays

Through Friday, Mar 1, 2024
Location: Lamont Library
Four women authors

Virtual: Ubuntu—A Look at the Women Who Raised Me

Through Friday, Mar 1, 2024
Location: Lamont Library
classical relief

Virtual: A Foreign Nostalgia

Through Friday, Mar 1, 2024
Location: Lamont Library
Covers of Peri Rossi's books

Virtual: Searching for Peri Rossi in the World

Through Saturday, Mar 9, 2024
Location: Lamont Library
Books arranged on a table

Virtual: Winter Twig Keys

Through Saturday, Mar 9, 2024
Location: Houghton Library
title page of an illustrated Moby Dick

Virtual: The Nearest Way Home—Literature and the Travel-book

Through Sunday, Apr 21, 2024
Location: Houghton Library