Harvard Museum of Natural History

Thursday—Sunday 9 AM—5 PM. $6.50 general, $5 seniors and non-Harvard students, $4 children 3-18. Free to Harvard community or with ARTS FIRST Guide. Free to all on Sundays. For more information and directions, call 495-3045 or visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu.

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is the public museum of Harvard University’s three natural history institutions: The Public Museum of the Botanical Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Mineralogical and Geological Museum.

Harvard Museum of Natural History presents the collections and research of Harvard's natural history institutions: 21 million specimens, 4 to 5 billion years, one great experience.

Harvard University Art Museums

$5 general; $4 seniors; $3 for non-Harvard students. Free for Harvard students, staff, and faculty, and those under 18. Free on Saturday until noon and all day at the Fogg Museum on Saturday, May 5. Thursday-Saturday 10 AM—5 PM, Sunday 1—5 PM.

Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Antoine Sevruguin and the Persian Image

This exhibition features over 45 photographs and presents a panorama of Sevruguin's documentation of the social history and visual culture of Iran. Antoine Sevruguin and the Persian Image is organized thematically: everyday life, ethnography, the royal court, architecture, Western fantasies, and women.

Fogg Art Museum

Sacred and Profane Visions From Renaissance Venice

This exhibition highlights the Art Museums' permanent collection of Venetian art and focuses on the acquisition of a Venetian altarpiece from around 1510-15. The altarpiece, a sacra conversazione, or Virgin and Child With Saints, is the most important example of its type in New England.

Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art From the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection

This groundbreaking exhibition focuses on Latin American work from the early 1930s to late 1980s and includes presents more than 60 paintings, drawings, and sculptures. It is the first exhibition of its kind to be developed at the Harvard University Art Museums and brings art scholars and the interested public closer to understanding the complex nature of art in this area and time.

Busch-Reisinger Museum

Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings

This exhibition presents approximately 15 late paintings by Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944), the master of modernist abstraction, borrowed from major museums throughout Europe and America. These works were started by Mondrian in Europe and finished after his arrival in New York, and feature syncopated accents of color, extra black lines, and thickly brushed white paint added to give the works, in his words, "more boogie-woogie."

Peabody Museum

Thursday—Sunday 9 AM—5 PM. $6.50 general admission, $5 seniors and students, $4 children 3—18. Free on Sunday from 9 AM—12 PM.

Heads and Tales: Adornments from Africa

Inspired by cultures, masks, artifacts, jewelry, and photographs in the Peabody collections, Heads and Tales: Adornments from Africa examines the expressive power of the human head. In a newly designed gallery, the exhibition captures the many ways that the head and its adornments convey visual messages about age, gender, ethnicity, and personal or social condition.

Contemporary Navajo Textiles

This exhibit includes the work of 13 Navajo women weavers who have been working since the 1960s. Their work represents some of the finest artistry in the American Southwest, building on centuries-old traditions, yet breaking new ground as they transform native sheep’s wool, store-bought yarns, plant dyes, and synthetic colors into textiles of great beauty and sophistication.

Semitic Museum

Thursday — Friday 10 AM—4 PM, Sunday 1—4 PM. Free.

The Sphinx and the Pyramids: 100 Years of America Archaeology at Giza

This exhibit includes artifacts, photographs and video, and highlights the excavations of Harvard Professor George Reisner in the early part of the twentieth century and the current work of Dr. Mark Lehner on the Giza plateau.

Nuzi and the Hurrians: Fragments from a Forgotten Past

The exhibit details the lives of the Hurrians in the Mesopotamian town of Nuzi (northeastern Iraq). Visitors can view manifestations of ordinary Hurrian life, predominantly from around 1400 BCE, including intricate cuneiform tablets, seals, and impressions, glasswork, pottery, and beaded jewelry.

Ancient Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection

The exhibit features selected pieces from the Museum's collection of over 1,300 intact pottery, glass vessels, lamps, figurines, and bronzes from Cyprus, dating from circa 2000 BCE to 300 CE.