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
Intaglio print of a miner swinging a pickaxe while another holds a lantern with other miners in the background of the quarry.

Artist, Neighbor, Citizen: Value in the Archive of Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová

Through Friday, Dec 13, 2024
Location: Houghton Library
A sepia off-center photograph of Lowell’s library at Sevenels with her desk on the right and two chandeliers hanging in frame.

Amy Lowell, Collector

Through Wednesday, Dec 18, 2024
Location: Houghton Library
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