Exhibits

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

Featured Exhibits

A Moment of Possibility

The Harvard Presidency from Henry Dunster to Claudine Gay
Through Friday, May 31, 2024

Video Games at Harvard-Yenching Library

Through Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023

In Praise of Learning

A Celebration of Collections
Through Friday, Jan 12, 2024
A chart illustrates the relationship between astronomical phenomena and issues in the human body.

Witchcraft in Law and in Practice

Through Wednesday, Dec 13, 2023
Location: Houghton Library
view of left side of display case

Seeing Blue: Images of Sun Time

Through Friday, Dec 15, 2023
Location: Fine Arts Library
Horsemen ride in a circle in front of a large building surrounded by a stone wall.

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Holdings at Yenching and Houghton Libraries

Through Tuesday, Dec 19, 2023
Location: Houghton Library
image of yellow video game box for Super Mario

Video Games at Harvard-Yenching Library

Through Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023
Location: Harvard-Yenching Library
Portraits of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Abraham Lincoln with the text of King's "I Have a Dream" speech overlaid.

Five Score Years from Lincoln to King: The Struggle for Black Freedom in America

Through Thursday, Dec 21, 2023
Location: Houghton Library
An accordion-style book written in a secret variation of the Batak language.

At the Limits of the Book

Through Friday, Jan 5, 2024
Location: Houghton Library
A montage of a straw hat, detail of a score heavily annotated in red pencil, a cassette tape, and a large oblong book bound in blue marbled covers.

In Praise of Learning

Through Friday, Jan 12, 2024
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
Group photograph of members of the Delta Sigma Theta Black women's sorority.

In Their Own Voices

Through Friday, Mar 8, 2024
Location: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
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
Charter with illuminated letter "W" in the word 'Whereas", dated May 31, 1650, framed. Engrossed on sheepskin. Signed by Thomas Dudley.

A Moment of Possibility

Through Friday, May 31, 2024
Location: Harvard University Archives
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 Sunday, Jun 30, 2024
Location: Loeb Music Library
Widener Library lobby image from above

Inside Widener Library

Through Saturday, Feb 15, 2025
Location: Widener 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
78rpm disc with an illustrated label showing factory workers.

Virtual: Treasures of the Loeb Music Library

Through Wednesday, Jun 30, 2027
Location: Online