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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology11 Divinity AveCambridge Sun., Oct. 18, 2026, 2 – 2:45 p.m. Harvard student guides connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who studies them? How are they cared for? How do they return home?Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No r

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, 02138 Sun., Oct. 18, 2026, 11 – 11:45 a.m. Harvard student guides connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who studies them? How are they cared for? How do they return home?Visitors may drop in at the sched

The Memorial Church of Harvard UniversityOne Harvard YardCambridge Sun., Oct. 18, 2026, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. The Memorial Church of Harvard University, part of Harvard's vibrant interfaith network, is an interdenominational Protestant church in the midst of Harvard Yard that serves as a place of spiritual refuge for the entire community.Services in the Memorial Church Sanctuary are live-streamed on Y

Harvard Art Museums32 Quincy St. Cambridge Sun., Oct. 18, 2026, 10 a.m. Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portra

Harvard Museum of Natural History26 Oxford St. Cambridge Sun., Oct. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are r

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology11 Divinity Ave.Cambridge Sun., Oct. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs ea

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.Cambridge Sun., Oct. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do toda

Harvard Museum of Natural History26 Oxford St.Cambridge Sun., Oct. 18, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking

Third Floor, CGIS South Building1730 Cambridge St.Cambridge Sun., Oct. 18, 2026 The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russ

Harvard Art Museums32 Quincy St.Cambridge Sun., Oct. 18, 2026 Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of

Sat., Oct. 17, 2026, 7 – 8:30 p.m. Caring for the sick and dying is a central calling of the Christian life, yet many of us feel unprepared to enter another person's suffering with wisdom, confidence, and love. Drawing on their personal experience of caring for Lois, a woman with terminal cancer who became part of their family during her final months, Michael and Tracy offer practical guidance for

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology11 Divinity AveCambridge Sat., Oct. 17, 2026, 2 – 2:45 p.m. Harvard student guides connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. How do items come to the museum? Who studies them? How are they cared for? How do they return home?Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No r

Harvard Art Museums32 Quincy St. Cambridge Sat., Oct. 17, 2026, 10 a.m. Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portra

Harvard Museum of Natural History26 Oxford St. Cambridge Sat., Oct. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. When you imagine a museum, you might picture cases of artifacts. But the objects on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are a tiny percentage of the total collections. Behind the scenes, experts care for 26 million specimens. These objects form the basis for studying life on Earth. They are r

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology11 Divinity Ave.Cambridge Sat., Oct. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Created over the course of fourteen years, Azadeh Akhlaghi’s project stages and photographs pivotal moments from Iran’s tumultuous twentieth-century history. Drawing on meticulous archival research and her background in cinema, she casts professional and nonprofessional actors and photographs ea

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St.Cambridge Sat., Oct. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Step back into the 18th century and put your detective skills to the test! Pop Quiz: 1776 takes you on a four-museum adventure to uncover surprising ways that life at Harvard was both similar to and — or different from — today. Would Harvard students in 1776 have known about the things we see and do toda

Harvard Museum of Natural History26 Oxford St.Cambridge Sat., Oct. 17, 2026, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Rubies is a new, intimate collection of stunning minerals, gemstones, and jewelry on display in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery.Ruby, the red variety of the mineral corundum, owes its vibrant color to trace amounts of chromium in its crystal structure. This element also gives many rubies a striking

Third Floor, CGIS South Building1730 Cambridge St.Cambridge Sat., Oct. 17, 2026 The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The individuals photographed in this body of work have in common the Russ

Harvard Art Museums32 Quincy St.Cambridge Sat., Oct. 17, 2026 Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of

JFK Jr. Forum, Institute of Politics79 JFK St.Cambridge Fri., Oct. 16, 2026, 4 – 5 p.m. Join us in the JFK Forum for the third installment of our year-long series observing America’s semiquincentennial Consent of the Governed: America at 250 and Beyond. Moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and professor Jill Lepore, this panel discussion will focus on the importance of a well-informed cit