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Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination
Embark on a daring voyage into the depths of human imagination at the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s new exhibition, Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination. Featuring ancient mariners' maps, literature, works of art, and natural history specimens, this exhibit explores the allure of serpents, krakens, and other monsters of the deep. Peer into […]
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Look beyond the Sea Monsters special exhibition to explore other items in the collections. Pick up the Sea-ing Monsters scavenger hunt sheet at any of the four Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Find this symbol throughout the galleries of all four museums marking contenders for the title of Sea Monster and decide for yourself—sea […]
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Standard House Tour
What does a home reveal about its occupants, and about our shared history? For 200 years, the inhabitants of this house shaped American history, culture, and identity. This tour explores the different eras of the site’s history through its remarkable collections. Days: Every week on Sunday, Monday, Friday, and Saturday Dates: May 24, 2024 […]
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Manifest: Thirteen Colonies
Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic engagement with African American material culture housed in collections throughout the thirteen original United States colonies and Washington, D.C.
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Express House Tour
Short on time? Experience the highlights of the Longfellow House first floor on this quick, informal exploration of American history, culture, and identity. Days: Every week on Sunday, Monday, Friday, and Saturday Dates: May 24, 2024 to October 28, 2024 Time: 10:00 AM, 4:30 PM Duration: 1 hour
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Summer Spotlight Tour
This event does not require registration; see further details below. Created and led by Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program, Graduate Student Teacher Program, and Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP), Summer Spotlight Tours explore the Harvard Art Museums collections through a theme developed by each student. Free and open to […]
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Deep Dive Tour: Washington Reexamined
How do we remember George Washington? In Cambridge, Washington took the national stage in the fight for American liberty even as he continued to enslave over a hundred people in Virgina. This conversational tour examines Washington during the early American Revolution, his legacy, and the building of public memory.
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Léon Morin, Priest (Léon Morin, prêtre)
Based on a novel by Béatrix Beck that Melville described as “the most accurate picture I have read of the life of French people under the occupation,” Léon Morin, Priest focuses on Barny (Emmanuelle Riva), a widowed mother living in provincial France who, with the arrival of German forces, is suddenly confronted by the twin rigors of […]
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Short on time? Experience the highlights of the Longfellow House first floor on this quick, informal exploration of American history, culture, and identity. Days: Every week on Sunday, Monday, Friday, and Saturday Dates: May 24, 2024 to October 28, 2024 Time: 10:00 AM, 4:30 PM Duration: 1 hour
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Le doulos (The Informer)
No one can be trusted in the guarded, duplicitous milieu of Le doulos, Melville’s first decisive plunge into the policier genre. Most devious of all, at least from what we can tell, is Silien, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s sphinx-like gangster, who can swerve from businesslike practicality to homicidal detachment to suave seductiveness on a dime. In Melville’s ghostly, […]
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Kevin Barry at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes KEVIN BARRY—playwright, screenwriter, and author of Night Boat to Tangier, Beatlebone, and City of Bohane—for a discussion of his new novel The Heart in Winter.
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Four years after Bresson’s A Man Escaped, Jacques Becker directed his own film about prison escape, this time asking not what one man can accomplish with his hands but rather what five men can accomplish with their hands. The answer? If Bresson highlights shrewd ingenuity, Becker foregrounds brute force. The escape plan hatched by Becker’s quintet […]
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