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Busch-Reisinger Museum: Harvard University
32 Quincy Street | 617.495.9400
artmuseums.harvard.edu/busch/
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| ***CLOSING DATE INFORMATION: The Busch-Reisinger Museum is closed to the public for a renovation project which is expected to last approximately five years, or until 2013. During the renovation, selected works from the Busch-Reisinger collection will be on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, beginning in Fall 2008.***
The Busch-Reisinger Museum is the only museum in America devoted to promoting the informed enjoyment and critical understanding of the arts of Central and Northern Europe, with a special emphasis on the German-speaking countries. Founded in 1901 as the Germanic Museum through the efforts of Kuno Francke, professor of German literature at Harvard, the Museum originally contained only reproductions, notably plaster casts of major Germanic, sculptural, and architectural monuments. Under the curatorship (1930-1968) of Charles L. Kuhn, the Museum developed into one of the leading collections of modern art from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and related cultures. The Museum was renamed the Busch-Reisinger Museum in 1950 in honor of the related St. Louis families which had contributed decisively to its support. Today, the Museum has especially important holdings of Austrian Secession art, German expressionism, 1920s abstraction, and material related to the Bauhaus (including archives of Lyonel Feininger and Walter Gropius). In addition to notable collections of late Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque sculpture, 16th-century painting, and 18th-century porcelain, the Museum has recently focused on deepening its holdings of post-war and contemporary art from German-speaking Europe. The collection of unique and editioned artworks by the post-war artist Joseph Beuys is among the world's most comprehensive. |
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Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University
32 Quincy Street | 617.495.9400
artmuseums.harvard.edu/fogg/
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| ***CLOSING DATE INFORMATION: The Fogg Museum is closed to the public for a renovation project which is expected to last approximately five years, or until 2013. During the renovation, selected works from the Fogg collections will be on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, beginning in Fall 2008.*** The Fogg Art Museum, which opened to the public in 1895, is Harvard's oldest art museum. Around its Italian Renaissance courtyard, based on a sixteenth-century facade in Montepulciano, Italy, are galleries illustrating the history of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, with particular strengths in Italian early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, and nineteenth-century French art. The Wertheim Collection, housed on the second floor of the Fogg, is one of America's finest collections of Impressionist and post-Impressionist work, and contains many famous masterworks. The Boston area's most important collection of Picasso's work is also found at the Fogg, as well as outstanding collections of photographs, prints, and drawings. |
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Harvard Art Museum
32 Quincy Street and, 485 Broadway | 617.495.9400
artmuseums.harvard.edu/
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| Fogg Art Museum; Busch-Reisinger Museum; Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Together these three museums house more than 160,000 objects of art that range from antiquity to the present and come from Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. |
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Harvard Art Museum Shop
Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street | 617.495.8286
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| Publications from Harvard art musuems--the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Arthur M. Sackler. Related art titles. Exhibition catalogues. Reproductions and gifts. |
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Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street | 617.495.3045
hmnh.harvard.edu
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| Home to halls of animals, dinosaurs, meteorites and minerals, the HMNH has something for everyone. Don't miss the internationally renowned Glass Flowers -- you won't believe they're glass. |
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Harvard University Press Display Room
Holyoke Center Arcade, 1354 Massachusetts Avenue | 617.495.2625
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| Complete selection of Harvard University Press books in print including Loeb Classical Library. Special half-price section. Browsers welcome. |
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MIT Museum Compton Gallery
77 Massachusetts Ave., MIT Bldg 10-150 |
tinyurl.com/36e9lq
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Open Daily, 10am-5pm. Closed major holidays.
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Museum of Science
Science Park, Boston, MA | 617.723.2500
mos.org
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| Immerse yourself in the amazing IMAX? dome film experience of the Mugar Omni Theatre, witness a spectacular lightening show or embark on a journey through the universe at the Charles Hayden Planetarium. The Museum of Science, overlooking the scenic Charles River, presents over 550 hands-on, minds-on exhibits, including The Computing Revolution, Dinosaurs: Modeling the Mesozoic, and the Virtual FishTank?. |
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: Harvard University
11 Divinity Avenue | 617.496.1027
peabody.harvard.edu
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| Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology and houses one of the most comprehensive records of human cultural history in the Western Hemisphere. |
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Sackler Museum: Harvard University
485 Broadway | 617.495.9400
artmuseums.harvard.edu/sackler/
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| The Sackler houses the collections of Ancient, Asian, Islamic, and Later Indian art. Among its particular treasures are the world's finest collection of Chinese jades, Korean ceramics, and Chinese cave temple painting and sculpture; a significant collection of Japanese woodblock prints; one of America's most important collection of Chinese bronzes; Greek and Roman sculpture and vases, and ancient coins. The permanent collections are installed on a rotating basis to allow for the display of more works of art. Each curatorial department has its own study room to provide access to works in storage. Special temporary exhibitions of all kinds are shown on the first floor galleries. The Sackler also houses Harvard's The History of Art And Architecture, the Rubel Asiatic Research Library, a lecture hall, and classrooms. The building was named for Arthur M. Sackler, its greatest benefactor and an internationally known collector and patron of the arts. Hours: Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 1-5pm. Closed on national holidays. ***CLOSING DATE INFORMATION: Beginning June 30, 2008, the Fogg Museum and the Busch-Reisinger Museum will be closed to the public for a renovation project which is expected to last approximately five years. During the renovation, selected works from the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler collections will be on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum beginning in Fall 2008. However, the Sackler Museum will be closed for a few weeks beginning June 30, 2008, in order to complete the reinstallation.*** |
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