Resources at Harvard | Museums

The Harvard University Art Museums comprise one of the leading arts institutions in the United States and the world. It is distinguished by the range and depth of its collections and its groundbreaking exhibitions and original research. For more than a century, it has been the nation's premier training ground for museum professionals and scholars, and is renowned for its seminal and ongoing role in the development of the discipline of art history in this country. As an integral component of the Harvard University community, the Art Museums serve as a resource for all students, adding a special dimension both to their specific areas of study and to their lives at and after Harvard.

Widely acclaimed for the quality of its extensive collections, the Fogg Museum contains more than 83,000 treasures from nearly every region and important artistic period, including European and North American painting, prints, and photography. The Fogg is also a teaching museum. The Arthur M. Sackler Museum houses Asian, Islamic, and Later Indian art. Among its particular treasures are the world's finest collection of Chinese jades, Korean ceramics, and Chinese cave temple painting and sculpture. The Busch-Reisinger Museum is the only museum in America devoted to promoting the critical understanding of the arts of Central and Northern Europe, with a special emphasis on the German-speaking countries.

In addition to the Art Museums, Harvard is home to the Harvard Semitic Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, a Botanical Museum, and a Mineralogical and Geological Museum. For more information on these important collections, visit www.harvard.edu/museums.