Geographies
Africa: over 31,000 works (largely in the Peabody). This includes Egypt and Nubia.
Asia: c. 13,000 in Art Museum, 7765 ethnographic, 21,956 archaeological, 20, 133 photographic,
Europe (150,000? prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculptures in the Art Museum); 24,955 archaeological, 4812 photographic, 764 ethnographic in the Peabody.
Mexico and Central America (nearly 240,000 ethnographic and archaeological works (largely in the Peabody)North America which includes parts of the Caribbean) - over 600,000 ethnographic and archaeological works -largely in the Peabody), 70,000? in the Art Museum.
Oceania (including Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific Island Areas- 14,425 ethnographic works (23,000 items)
South America (largely Peru - which has 30,830 objects)
Budget(s)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2021/22 operational budged was c.$334.5 million.. Plausibly Harvard's Museums and Collection Budgets are circa half that amount: c.$165 million.
Collections
Each of our museums has a different history and set of collections as well as key elements of cross-currency and intersection. Individually and especially together, these museums rank among the world's finest.
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Art Museums (comprising)
The Harvard Art Museums house 250,000 objects largely from Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Fogg (50,000 prints, 10,000 European and American drawings; 7,000 photographs, 3750 decorative arts, 2, 000 Western paintings, especially strong in early Italian Renaissance, 19th century French, 19th century British, and American painting), 1000 sculptures, Source: http://www.artcom.com/Museums/nv/gl/02138-d.htm Busch-Reisinger (258 works - Germany and Northern European) Arthur M. Sackler 336 China 1587 India 9809 Japan 1560 Korea 22,000 Greek, Roman, and Byzantine coins. Cost of recent renovations: est. $350 and $400 million Staff: c.175 people. The museum receives no money from the University |
Peabody Museum of Ethnography and Archaeology
The Peabody Museum houses more than 1.2 million individual objects, 103,272 are identified as ethnographic and 370,797 as archaeological (including a sizable number of human and animal ossuary finds). The collection c.200 paintings and 950 works on paper, the collection of artwork is a complementary addition to the object collections. There also are 500,000 photographic images, and substantial archival records. These largely represent works and remains of indigenous American, African, and Oceanic populations. Staff: c.50 people |
Ancient Near East (formerly Semitic)
- Ancient Near East contains 40,000 objects, largely from museum-sponsored excavations in Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Cyprus, and Tunisia. Staff: c.7 people. Natural History - The Museum of Natural History has over 100,000 specimens. Scientific Instruments -Historical Scientific Instruments contains over 20,000 objects dating from about 1400 to the present (largely Western). |
Cooper Gallery
(Hutchins Center). Founded in 2014, it does not own collections, but is part of the Hutchins Center which has important works of African American history and memorabilia. Hiphop Archive (Hutchins Center,) Image of the Black Archive (Hutchins Center) Dumbarton Oaks Washington, DC.) Byzantine (1200 works) also includes objects of Greek, Roman, and western Medieval art; works from the Ancient Near East; Pharaonic and Ptolemaic Egypt; and Islamic cultures. Pre-Columbian (? works). Also 10,000 images of Pre-Columbian objects. House Collection (? works): Asian Art, Prints and Drawings, Decorative Arts, Architectural Elements I Tatti Florence, Italy) Italian Renaissance (150 works), Asian (50 works), Sculptures (20 ranging from pre-Columbian and ancient Greek to Renaissance), Islamic (15 works). Modern and Contemporary (c.6 works). |
Harvard Libraries
Houghton Library (Rare Books and Manuscripts) strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture,. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Herbarium Collections Digital records of over 5 million specimens in the Harvard University Herbaria - also publications and other information. Map Collection Founded in 1818, the Harvard Map Collection includes over 400,000 maps, 6,000 atlases, and 5,000 reference books. Theatre Collection (in Houghton). Founded in 1901, it stands as one of the oldest and largest performing arts collections in the world. Radcliffe: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Business School: Baker Library Historical Collections Environmental Collections: Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives Medical School: Warren Anatomical Museum Countway Library of Medicine & Center for the History of Medicine Loeb Music Library holds both secondary and primary sources related to musical performance. Fine Arts Library holds visual material related to performance. Francis Loeb Library of the Graduate School of Design holds material related to theatre architecture and design. Harvard Film Archive holds audiovisual material from around the world and from almost every period in film history.. |