Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Programs

Celebrate the longest day of the year and mark the beginning of summer with the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture! While we can’t welcome you to our museums in person just yet, we invite you to join us for a special livestream to learn about the...

This exhibit features images and objects drawn from a variety of disciplines and time periods that show the importance of visual experiences in science. Images have played many roles in scientific research. MORE PRESS RELEASE

Free Public Lecture Eram Alam , Assistant Professor of History of Science, Harvard University In 1965, the United States invited thousands of physicians from other countries to fill vacancies that could not be filled with American doctors. While this...

Witness the science behind Frankenstein! Join us on Halloween for a re-enactment of the spooky and shocking experiments that inspired Mary Shelley in the writing of Frankenstein two hundred years ago. See the strange apparatus that brought the creature to...

Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University As a devastating famine gripped India and Pakistan in 1966, a cargo of hybrid wheat seeds from Mexico arrived one fateful day on India’s coast. The seeds were first planted...

Erika Milam, Professor of History, Princeton University After World War II, evolutionary scientists began rethinking their views on humanity’s past. What if human history was not merely a cooperative struggle against a harsh environment? What if violence...

ARTS FIRST is Harvard's annual showcase of student and faculty creativity. Produced by the Office for the Arts, with support from the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, the festival is a public event with many free performances and activities for...

Free Public Lecture W. Jason Morgan, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University; Visiting Scholar, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University Plate tectonic theory, a milestone in twentieth-century science, has been instrumental in...

>>>>>THIS EVENT CANCELED DUE TO TRAVEL MISHAP<<<<<<<<< >>>>>THIS EVENT CANCELED DUE TO TRAVEL MISHAP<<<<<<<<< Free Public Lecture and Book Signing William Rankin, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Yale University For most of the twentieth...

Free Public Lecture Sara J. Schechner, David P. Wheatland Curator, 
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University As a science that studies distant celestial objects, astronomy deals with few things that can be touched directly. And...