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Harvard's Museums - A Short History
1866 The Peabody Museum founded
1889 Museum of the Ancient Near East (founded as the Semitic Museum). Name changed in 2020
1895 Fogg Art Museum established
1903 The Busch-Reisinger Museum founded as the Germanic Museum.
1985 The Sackler Museum established.
1984 Harvard Art Museums (established as umbrella for three art Museums) founded this year.
1984 Museum of Scientific Instruments founded
1998 Peabody Museum of Ethnology and Archaeology established as separate collection.
1998 Museum of Natural History (Herbaria, the Mineralogical & Geological Museum, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology)
2014 Ethelbert Cooper Gallery.
1889 Museum of the Ancient Near East (founded as the Semitic Museum). Name changed in 2020
1895 Fogg Art Museum established
1903 The Busch-Reisinger Museum founded as the Germanic Museum.
1985 The Sackler Museum established.
1984 Harvard Art Museums (established as umbrella for three art Museums) founded this year.
1984 Museum of Scientific Instruments founded
1998 Peabody Museum of Ethnology and Archaeology established as separate collection.
1998 Museum of Natural History (Herbaria, the Mineralogical & Geological Museum, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology)
2014 Ethelbert Cooper Gallery.
The Harvard Museums and Collections TodayHarvards' Museum Collections and Exhibitions are a legacy of our past, both positive and deeply challenging. And we owe it to ourselves, future generations, and the world at large to bring these collections into accordance with 21st our century university educational goals and well as broader shared values around equity, inclusion, and diversity
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The Objects
Harvard University has extraordinary collections of art and visual culture from around the world.Most of these works have never been exhibited, much less studied or shared with the broader global community.
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About Us
This is project is being spearheaded by Professor Suzanne Preston Blier and students. Prof. Blier is the Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies at Harvard. She an Art Historian who specializes in the art and architecture of Africa who holds positions in both History of Art and Architecture Department and the African and African American Studies Department at Harvard University. Contact: blier at fas dot harvard dot edu
Note: this site was created by by Prof. Blier for her course on The Museum and is not an official Harvard University website.
Note: this site was created by by Prof. Blier for her course on The Museum and is not an official Harvard University website.
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