CHSI
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 collection, and more recently has set off an important documentation and digitization project—our online database available to anyone, anywhere, called Waywiser.
Much more needs to be done. In addition to our day-to-day curatorial management, we have begun an ambitious exhibition and pedagogical program. We believe the CHSI’s collection of scientific instruments offers great learning opportunities to a variety of people, including Faculty, undergrad and grad students, postdocs, visiting scholars, critical media artists, and the wider public. The goal is to create a pedagogical and experimental environment that will encourage the production of object-based knowledge. We envision the end results to include and go beyond exhibitions: art performances, critical film studies, and lecture events to name but a few. Your donation will help us continue to care for the collection, to involve an increasing number of creative minds, and to develop a more open, innovative, and critical understanding of the material culture of science.
With kind regards,
Peter L. Galison
Faculty Director of the CHSI
Joseph Pellegrino University Professor
Peter Galison profiled as one of Harvard's Great Teachers
To make a gift by major credit card >>
Please use the Harvard University Online Giving Form.
When selecting a school/affiliate to donate to, please choose “Other” from the drop-down menu and enter a note in the “Comments/Other Designation” box with instructions that this gift should go to the “Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.”
To make a gift by personal check >>
Please make checks payable to “The President and Fellows of Harvard College” and include a note in the memo line of the check that this is for the “CHSI Fund #017526 / History of Science.”
Gifts by check may be mailed to:
Jean-Francois Gauvin,
Director of Administration/Lecturer
Department of the History of Science
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Science Center 371
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Resources
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Gallery Hours
Putnam Gallery
Science Center 136
Hours:
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 4:00pm
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Hours:
Monday - Friday
9:00am - 5:00pm
Foyer Exhibition Space
Science Center 371
Hours:
CLOSED FOR INSTALLATION
Free and open to the public.
Children must be escorted by an adult.
Both the Putnam Gallery and Special Exhibitions are closed on University Holidays.
Inquiries: 617-495-2779
Directions
The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments is located inside the Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, on Harvard's Cambridge campus.
