Exhibitions
Building on Strengths and Broadening Horizons: Recent Additions to the Collections of Houghton Library
Through April 26, 2008
Edison and Newman Room
Houghton Library
Peter Accardo, 617-496-4027 or accardo@fas.harvard.edu
Selected recent acquisitions of Houghton Library, ranging from the 12th century to the mid-20th, illustrate how collections support teaching and research of both traditional and new areas of study.
Carl Linneaus: A 300-Year Legacy
Through May 23, 2008
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street
See http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu for hours and admission prices
While still a university student, Linnaeus invented a scientific system of classifying plants and animals that took 18th-century Europe by storm and ultimately revolutionized the field of natural history. The Linnaean classification system continues to be taught in biology classrooms the world over and to be used by contemporary scientists as they document and name new species. This small exhibit will trace the history of Linnaeus's scientific accomplishments and offer insight into the personality and motivations of this deeply religious scholar who set out on a mission to document the divine order and wisdom revealed in the natural world. The exhibit will showcase a variety of objects from Harvard's botanical collections, including selected plant and animal specimens named by and for Linnaeus, an original letter penned in the naturalist's own hand, and rare early editions of some of his renowned publications—Systema Naturae, Flora Lapponica, Hortus Cliffortianus, and Species Plantarum. It includes rare books and papers loaned from the Farlow Reference Library, the Library of the Gray Herbarium, and the Special Collections of the Mayr Library, including a sixth edition of Systema Naturae, printed in 1748, from Louis Agassiz's own collection.
A "Daring Experiment": Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937-1970
Through May 16, 2008
Baker Library
Bloomberg Center, North Lobby
25 Harvard Way
Allston
Melissa Murphy, 617-496-6364 or mmurphy@hbs.edu
The second in a series of exhibitions marking the centennial of Harvard Business School, this exhibit traces the history of business education for women at Harvard from the certificate program in personnel administration at Radcliffe College to the integration of women into the full two-year MBA program at Harvard Business School. The exhibition is available online at http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/daring.
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From Rhubarb to Rubies: European Travels to Safavid Iran, 1550-1700
May 8 through August 16, 2008
Edison and Newman Room
Houghton Library
Peter Accardo, 617-496-4027 or accardo@fas.harvard.edu
Houghton Library's rich collection of Early Modern books, maps, prints, and miniatures illustrates the reasons why the travelers went to Iran, what they brought home from their visits, and how they shared their impressions and experiences. In addition, the exhibition will include selected instruments, plants, animals, and minerals from other Harvard collections.
From Soundings to Sidescan Sonar: Mapping the Ocean Floor
Through May 23, 2008
Main floor exhibition case
Cabot Science Library
Reed Lowrie, 617-496-5534 or lowrie@fas.harvard.edu
The exhibit traces the advance of ocean floor mapping from plumb lines to sonar and contains examples of cartographers Heezen and Tharp's 1957 maps as well as other items from the HCL collections.
Harvard College Annual International Photo Contest
Through June 30, 2008
First and Third Floors
Lamont Library
Lynn Sayers, 617-495-2455 or sayers@fas.harvard.edu
Features photographs taken by Harvard students while they studied, worked, interned, or did research abroad during the 2006-2007 academic year.
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The Lands of the Sophi: Iran in Early Modern European Maps (1550-1700)
May 8 through August 16, 2008
Harvard Map Collection Gallery
Pusey Library
David Cobb, 617-495-2417 or cobb@fas.harvard.edu
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Let It Shine!
Through August 1, 2008
Stendahl Lobby, Second Floor
Andover-Harvard Theological Library
Harvard Divinity School
45 Francis Avenue
Clifford Wunderlich, 617-496-5409 or cwunderlich@hds.harvard.edu
This exhibit features books, pamphlets, archaeological slides, postcards of churches, and manuscripts that have been digitized from the collection of Andover-Harvard Theological Library in various cooperative projects. The purpose of the exhibit is to bring together the material objects and their digital representation. It includes introductions to the databases that point to the original materials and/or their digital copies, as well as information on how to search those databases. For more information, see http://www.hds.harvard.edu/library/exhibits/current.html.
The Mercator Globes
Ongoing
Harvard Map Collection
Pusey Library
617-495-2417
Includes Gerard Mercator's terrestrial (1541) and celestial (1551) globes, which reflected new discoveries in world geography and cosmography as well as new techniques in charting, printing, and globe making. Only 22 matched pairs survive, Harvard's being the only matched pair of Mercator globes in America.
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T.R. in Cartoon: The Verdict, 1898-1900
June 2 through September 30, 2008
Theodore Roosevelt Gallery
Pusey Library
Wallace Dailey, 617-384-7938 or wfdailey@fas.harvard.edu
Ukraine Under Western Eyes: European Maps of Ukraine from the Renaissance to the 20th Century
Through May 5, 2008
Harvard Map Collection Gallery
Pusey Library
David Cobb, 617-495-2417 or cobb@fas.harvard.edu
The Warren Anatomical Museum Reopening Exhibition
Ongoing
Warren Anatomical Museum Exhibition Gallery, Fifth Floor
Countway Library of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
10 Shattuck Street
Boston, MA 02115
617-432-2173
Winners of the 2006–2007 Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting and the Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art
Through April 30, 2008
Exhibition Cases
Lamont Library
Lynn Sayers, 617-495-2455 or sayers@fas.harvard.edu
"Songs That Never Die: Community Songbooks in America," "The Visual Muse: Images of Music and Musicians," and "The Devotional Arts of Haitian Vodou." Samplings of the collections of these prize-winning entries, along with personal commentary, are on exhibit.
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