ArtsThursdays at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Harvard Museum of Natural History & Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Free Evening Event

Explore the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture at night! Enjoy free admission at two HMSC museums as part of ArtsThursdays. All ages are welcome.

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Visit the new exhibits Swimming with Sharks and In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, as well as the world-famous Glass Flowers. Find your birthstone in the newly renovated mineral gallery, see large tigers, and view dinosaur fossils in the paleontology gallery.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Explore towering Maya sculptures in the Latin American galleries and see the new exhibit, Shehuo: Community Fire, featuring contemporary photographs of Shehuo, the rural Chinese festival transformed by economic forces. See nineteenth-century Plains Indian warrior art in an exhibit co-curated by Hunkpapa Lakota artist and tribal educator Butch Thunder Hawk.

ArtsThursdays is a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) 

This program is part of HMSC’s 10-Year Anniversary celebration.