#  Media Archive 

 



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###    MEASURING DIFFERENCE (Oct 20, 2024 – Aug 26, 2025)  expand\_more  

 

[At Harvard, taking the measure of what happened when worlds collided](/file_url/1075) The Boston Globe, December 1, 2024  
 [Harvard exhibit weighs in on history of colonial measurements](/file_url/1076).  
The Washington Post, October 20, 2024

 

 

 



###    VISUAL SCIENCE (Sep 20, 2019 - Sep 2021)  expand\_more  

 

 "[Seeing Science](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2019/09/seeing-science?fbclid=IwAR39P7wm1y6_GrWsbIcp5lrdO2FG5Oz3rWw13RksCCIM9Yd5eyngaDaAMdA)," Harvard Magazine, September-October 2019

 "[Mad Science](https://steampunk-explorer.com/articles/steampunk-digest-november-15-2019)," The Steampunk Explorer, November 15, 2019



 

 

 



###    Scale (Mar 10 - Dec 10, 2017)  expand\_more  

 

"[Eye on the Cosmos](/file_url/536)," Harvard Magazine, Nov/Dec 2017  
  
"[Scale' tells the story of how, and what, we measure](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/harvard-museums-of-science-cultures-scale-tells-the-story-of-how-and-what-we-measure/)," Harvard Gazette, 4/18/17  
  
[“Scale: A Matter of Perspective” examines how scale stimulates mind, captivates imagination](http://dailyfreepress.com/2017/03/16/scale-a-matter-of-perspective-examines-how-scale-stimulates-mind-captivates-imagination/)," The Daily Free Press, Boston University, 3/16/17

 

 

 



###    Radio Contact (Mar 11 - Dec 9, 2016)  expand\_more  

 

 [When America tuned into the radio](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/11/when-america-tuned-into-the-radio/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11.09.2016%20(1)), The Harvard Gazette, 11/8/2016  
  
[Now on the air: The Women](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/10/now-on-air-the-women/), The Harvard Gazette, 10/28/2016  
  
[Panelists Highlight Legacy of Women's Radio Project](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/10/26/boston-womens-radio-project-reunion/?utm_source=Email%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=e94fcae0f1-Daily_Newsletter_2016_10_2610_26_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_160d75b318-e94fcae0f1-17468605), The Harvard Crimson, 10/26/2016  
  
[Spinning the Radio Dial at Harvard](http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2016/05/26/spinning-radio-dial-harvard/vCz15WTBG3SW0r6ZrxpPdJ/story.html), The Boston Globe, 5/26/2016  
  
[Tuning In: The Intersection of Art &amp; Science Through Radio](http://mediacentre.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/post/tuning-in-the-intersection-of-art-and-science-through-radio/), Leeds Beckett University, Media Centre, 4/21/2016  
  
[Before Social Media](http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/04/before-social-media), Harvard Magazine, May/June 2016  
  
[New Harvard Exhibit Narrates the Story of Boston Radio](http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/blog/2016/03/10/radio-contact-exhibit-harvard/), BostonMagazine.com, 3/10/2016  
  
[Exhibit on the Influence of the Radio Opens Friday](http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/3/10/radio-culture-exhibit-opens/), The Harvard Crimson, 3/10/2016



 

 

 



###    Finding Our Way (Feb 13 - Dec 11, 2015)  expand\_more  

 

["Two shows look at maps both real and imagined](/file_url/216)," Boston Globe, 2/26/2015



 

 

 



###    Body of Knowledge (Mar 6 - Dec 5, 2014)  expand\_more  

 

“[Body of Knowledge Receives “Great Exhibition” Award](/file_url/187),” Warren Anatomical Museum News

"[Head of the Class](/file_url/186)," Harvard Medical School News Online, 11/21/2013

"[New Exhibit Explores History and Science of Human Dissection](/file_url/185)," Harvard Crimson, 3/7/2014

"[Exquisite, Disturbing Objects From 500 Years of Human Anatomical Science](/file_url/184)," WIRED Magazine, 3/10/2014

"[Medical curiosities in new Harvard Museums exhibit](/file_url/183)," boingboing.net, 3/11/2014

"[Skull Walking](/file_url/182)," Harvard Magazine, 3-4/2014

"[Bodies of Knowledge](/file_url/181)," Campus News, Harvard Magazine Online, 3/14/2014

"[Body exhibit](/file_url/180)," Harvard Gazette, 4/24/2014

["Body of Knowledge" Related Events](/file_url/188)



 

 

 



###    Time &amp; TIme Again (Mar 6 - Dec 6, 2013)  expand\_more  

 

[Calendar of Related Events](/file_url/179)

"[Signs of the Time](/file_url/178)" from Colloquy, Summer 2013

"[Time for a movie!](/file_url/177)" from The Harvard Gazette, 7/1/2013

"[Seen at the Beach](/file_url/176)," Harvard Magazine, 7-8/2013

"[Pages Out of Time](/file_url/175)," The Harvard Gazette, 5/9/2013

"[Bach Embraces Baroque](/file_url/174)," The Harvard Crimson, 4/17/2013

"[Museum Exhibit Dials in On Time](/file_url/173)," The Harvard Crimson, 3/7/2013

"[Time &amp; Time Again" Press Release](/file_url/172), 2/2013



 

 

 



###    GO ASK A.L.I.C.E. (Sep 11 - Dec 20, 2012)  expand\_more  

 

"[Alan Turing at 100](/file_url/171)," The Harvard Gazette, 9/13/2012  
  
"GO ASK A.L.I.C.E" presents [a play based on the Turing](http://www.vimeo.com/harvardchsi/review/97230015/57c961157d)[ Test](http://www.vimeo.com/harvardchsi/review/97230015/57c961157d).  
  
"[GO](http://player.vimeo.com/video/55977120)[ ASK A.L.I.C.E.: A Panel Discussion](http://player.vimeo.com/video/55977120)," 11/29/2012



 

 

 



###    X-Rays of the Soul (Spring 2012)  expand\_more  

 

"[What the Rorschach tells us](/file_url/170)," The Boston Globe, 6/10/2012

"[Exhibit Review – X-Rays of the Soul](/file_url/168)," historypsychiatry.com, 5/13/2012

"[X-rays..." Panel Discussion](http://vimeo.com/46502939)," Science Center 469, Harvard University, 4/23/2012

"[You, revealed](/file_url/169)," The Harvard Gazette, 4/2/2012



 

 

 



###    Cold War in the Classroom (Sep 30, 2011 - Feb 3, 2012)  expand\_more  

 

"[Cold War fever](/file_url/166)," The Harvard Gazette, 9/30/2011

"[Exhibit Showcases Cold War Curricula](/file_url/167)," The Harvard Crimson, 11/10/2011



 

 

 



###    Tangible Things (Spring Semester 2011)  expand\_more  

 

“[These are just a few of their quirkiest things](/file_url/128),” The Boston Globe, 3/6/2011  
  
“[Putting things in their place](/file_url/129),” Harvard Gazette, 3/3/2011  
  
“‘[Tangible Things’ Refuses to be Classified, Categorized](/file_url/130),” The Harvard Crimson, 2/8/2011



 

 

 



###    Paper Worlds (May 4 - Aug 27, 2010)  expand\_more  

 

"[Art, printmaking, and science](/file_url/123)," Harvard Gazette, 5/21/2010

"[Early-modern anatomy prints at Harvard](/file_url/124)," boston.com, 5/26/2010



 

 

 



###    Patent Republic (May 1 - Dec 11, 2009)  expand\_more  

 

“[Patent Models on Display at Harvard](/file_url/120),” The Patent Librarian’s Notebook, 6/5/2009  
  
“[Patent Models Record Inventions in Miniature](/file_url/121),” Wired.com, 7/29/2009  
  
“[History on a Small Scale](/file_url/122),” Harvard Gazette, 7/2/2009



 

 

 



###    Benjamin Franklin: A How-to Guide (June 5 - December 19, 2006)  expand\_more  

 

 ['A How-To Guide' explores Ben Franklin's 'can-do' legacy](/file_url/1026), Harvard Gazette, June 1, 2006

 [Benjamin Franklin: A How-To Guide, Catalog of the Exhibition](/file_url/1027), Sara J. Schechner, Joyce Chaplin, Thomas Horrocks



 

 

 



###    Bringing Nature Inside (November 1, 2004 - January 14, 2005)  expand\_more  

 

 [Early museum re-created in Science Center installation](/file_url/1028), Harvard Gazette, November 4, 2004

 [Exhibition "Bringing Nature Inside" Extended to June 10, 2005, by Popular Demand at Science Center Gallery, Harvard University](/file_url/1029), UMAC Newsletter, January 2005



 

 

 



###    Time, Life, &amp; Matter (Ongoing)  expand\_more  

 

"[Getting Into Harvard](/file_url/191)," boston.com, 3/8/2009

"[Telltale Apparatus](/file_url/189)," Harvard Magazine, 3-4/2006

"[Galileo to cyclotron: History on display](/file_url/192)," Harvard Gazette, 12/15/2005

"[New Gallery Showcases Old Science](/file_url/190)," The Harvard Crimson, 12/1/2005



 

 

 



###    IBM ASCC-Harvard Mark I (Ongoing)  expand\_more  

 

"[Ghosts of the Past: 5 Places to View Your iPhone's Ancestors](http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gh0st5-0f-the-pa5t-5-places-to-view-your-iphone-s-ancestors)," Atlas Obscura, 4/23/2015  
  
 "[The Queen of Code](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-queen-of-code/)" web documentary about Grace Hopper. FiveThirtyEight.com, 1/28/2015  
  
 "[Ghosts in the Machines](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/10/ghosts-in-the-machines/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10.02.2014%20(1))," Harvard Gazette, 10/1/2014  
  
 "[Down to The Details, A Giant in Computing History](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/04/down-to-the-details-a-giant-in-computing-history/)," Harvard Gazette Online, 4/7/2014  
  
 "[Mark I, Rebooted](http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/04/mark-i-rebooted#article-images)," Harvard Magazine Online, 3-4/2014  
  
 "[Grace Hopper, computing pioneer](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/12/grace-hopper-computing-pioneer/)," Harvard Gazette, 12/3/2014



 

 

 



 

 

 

 

##  SPECIAL EVENTS 

 



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###    Radio Contact / Sit'N Listen Podcasts  expand\_more  

 

[Radio Contact: “People don’t have radio dreams anymore”](https://soundcloud.com/radiocontactproject/donna-halper)  
  
[Sit'N Listen Episode 10: Sports, Sex, and Gender](https://soundcloud.com/sitn-boston/sports-sex-and-gender)  
 

 

 

 



###    Solstice Celebration  expand\_more  

 

[Summer Solstice Night at the Harvard Museums of Science &amp; Culture](/file_url/158)



 

 

 



###    Sensations of Tone  expand\_more  

 

["Sensations of Tone: Wave Physics and the Creative Arts](/file_url/159)," Press Release  
[  ](/file_url/159)["Sensations of Tone Explores Physics and Music at Harvard](/file_url/160)," The Boston Musical Intelligenser, 10/22/2010  
  
["Spectralism Explores Physiology](/file_url/161)," The Harvard Crimson, 11/2/2010



 

 

 



###    Transits of Venus  expand\_more  

 

["The Last Dance Between Venus &amp; the Sun](/file_url/163)," Harvard Gazette, 5/29/2012

["Harvard Celebrates Transit of Venus](/file_url/164)," The Harvard Crimson, 6/9/2004

[Observations of the transit of Venus : December 5 and 6, 1882, made at the Harvard College Observatory](https://archive.org/details/observationstra00obsegoog), Pickering, Edward C (Edward Charles), 1846-1919; Harvard College Observatory, Digitized From *Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. XVIII (n. s., X)*

[The Transit of Venus: Harvard 18th and 19th Century Student Predictions](/file_url/162), Harvard Library