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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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Exercise the Mind and Body Fitness Series Schedule, Summer 2024
Beginning Wednesday, July 10, Harvard Square’s beloved The Charles Hotel is thrilled to launch its Summer 2024 Exercise the Mind and Body Fitness Series. Partnering with local, beloved fitness studios, BREATHE Cambridge, Fresh Pond Taiji, and Barre & Soul, hotel guests and the community are invited to enjoy a rotating list of complimentary classes, including […]
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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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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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Rock Around the Clock
Jumping on the teenage bandwagon, Columbia Pictures produced this highly fictionalized version of the discovery of rock and roll. A big band manager (Johnston) gives up on jazz and goes looking for the next big thing… and he finds it in the form of Bill Haley and His Comets.
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Pal Joey
Despite the rise of rock’n’roll, Frank Sinatra was in the middle of a huge comeback in the mid-fifties and so it’s no surprise that Ol’ Blue Eyes would find success in music-filled movies again. Sinatra stars as a womanizer who falls for a beautiful chorus girl (Novak) while romancing a society dame (Hayworth) who can […]
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SUZIE BROWN & SCOT SAX Suzie’s 50th Birthday Show, Jenna Nicholls opens
A 1970s-inspired folk-pop songwriter, Suzie Brown has chased her unique muse for a decade, making modern-day roots music that nods to the soul singers, heartland rockers, and blues artists who came before her. Gluing the sound together is the unforced voice and honest, autobiographical songwriting of a Renaissance woman who’s not only an acclaimed musician, […]
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Juliet Grames at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes JULIET GRAMES—best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna and editorial director at Soho Press—for a discussion of her new novel The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia. She will be joined in conversation by MARJAN KAMALI—award-winning author of The Stationery Shop. Her new novel, The Lion Women of Tehran comes out this July.
Find out moreJuliet Grames at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes JULIET GRAMES—best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna and editorial director at Soho Press—for a discussion of her new novel The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia. She will be joined in conversation by MARJAN KAMALI—award-winning author of The Stationery Shop. Her new novel, The Lion Women of Tehran comes out this July.
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Rock Around the Clock
Jumping on the teenage bandwagon, Columbia Pictures produced this highly fictionalized version of the discovery of rock and roll. A big band manager (Johnston) gives up on jazz and goes looking for the next big thing… and he finds it in the form of Bill Haley and His Comets.
Find out more