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Surveillance: From Vision to Data Exhibition Lunch and Learn – Sold Out

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Free In-Person Event Take a closer look at Surveillance: From Vision to Data, On view at Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments starting 9/21/23. Join the curators for a talk focusing on select objects, the multiple legacies of...

About the Collection

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As researchers at Harvard have advanced the sciences, the artifacts of their work continue to inform. Since its inception in 1948, various Harvard departments and private benefactors have added material to the original nucleus of the Collection of...

Tangible Things of American Astronomy, or What Does a Computer Have in Common with a Teapot?

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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...

Summer Science Week: Eureka! The Science of Science

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For children entering grades 6–8 How do we know what we know? What clever tricks and tools have people used through time to understand the world? And how would you convince others of a groundbreaking new idea? Dive into the whys and hows of sciences such...

Free Fun Friday 2018!

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Enjoy free admission on Friday, August 24 at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture as part of Highland Street Foundation's 10th Annual Free Fun Fridays summer event series. Enjoy the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s Marine Life in the Putnam Family...

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Why give to the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments? The CHSI has been fortunate to count on great Friends over the last decades. Their generosity helped us build this new space we now enjoy, hire full-time museum professionals to care for the...

Freud’s Drawings and the Visual Origins of Psychoanalysis

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In this panel discussion, marking the opening of our online exhibition The Interpretation of Drawings: Freud and the Visual Origins of Psychoanalysis, noted Freud scholars explore the role of Freud’s drawings and art collection in the development of his...

CHSI History

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David P. Wheatland (1898 - 1993) Scholar, Author, Avid Collector, Sine qua non for the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments David Pingree Wheatland — known affectionately to many as Mr. Wheatland — began amassing the nucleus of objects that...

CHSI Goes to Montréal

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On Monday and Tuesday, 16-17 May 2016, graduate students from the History of Science Department travelled to Montréal, Québec as part of a three-year collaborative effort between the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie...

Panel Discussion

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In this panel discussion, noted Freud scholars explored the role of Freud’s drawings and art collection in the development of his psychoanalytic theories, and provided new insights into the man and mind behind some of the most influential and debated...

From Jazz to Hip Hop: Radio as a Turnstile between White and African-American Cultures

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CANCELLED: Live WBUR Broadcast: You’re the Expert

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