Harvard University Art Museums
Mon.-Sat., 10 am-5 pm; Sun., 1 pm-5 pm
Closed on national holidays
General Information: 617-495-9400
www.artmuseums.harvard.edu

The Harvard University Art Museums form one of the leading art institutions in the United States and the world, distinguished by the range and depth of their collections, groundbreaking exhibitions, and original research. The collections of the Art Museums consist of more than 260,000 objects in all media. They range in date from antiquity to the present and come from Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. The collections are divided among 10 curatorial departments and are encyclopedic within most areas.

Students are invited to join the Friends of the Harvard Art Museums. The $45 annual fee includes invitations to special exhibition openings and other events organized by and for students, a subscription to the Calendar, and a 10 percent discount in the Museum Shop. Another student group, OUR HUAM (Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of the Harvard University Art Museums), is committed to creating student-run events and projects that offer tangible ways for students to be involved in the Art Museums, as well as an undergraduate student docent program.

Fogg Art Museum
32 Quincy Street

The Fogg Art Museum, which opened to the public in 1895, is Harvard's oldest art museum. Around its Italian Renaissance courtyard are galleries illustrating the history of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, with particular strengths in Italian early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, and 19th century French art. The Wertheim Collection, housed on the second floor, is one of America's finest collections of Impressionist and post-Impressionist work, and contains many famous masterworks, including those by Cezanne, Manet, Matisse, Monet, and Picasso. Central to the Fogg Art Museum's holdings is the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, a collection of more than 4,000 works of art. Bequeathed to Harvard in 1943, the collection continues to play a pivotal role in shaping the collections and legacy of the Art Museums, serving as a foundation for teaching, research, and professional training programs. On display in the Fogg's second floor galleries, the Winthrop Collection includes 19th-Century masterpieces by Blake, Burne-Jones, David, Daumier, van Gogh, Homer, Ingres, Renoir, Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Sargent, and Whistler, as well as early Chinese art, from archaic jades to bronze ritual vessels, weapons, mirrors, bells, ornamental fittings, and Buddhist sculptures in stone and gilt bronze.

Students and the public can utilize the Agnes Mongan Study Center to view the Fogg's outstanding collections of photographs, prints, and drawings. The study center is open Tue.-Fri. from 2 pm-4:45 pm or by appointment. (617-384-8310).

The Fogg Art Museum also houses classrooms as well as the Phillip A. and Lynn Straus Center for Conservation. The Center, which was the first facility of its kind in the world, offers classes through the Department of History of Art and Architecture for undergraduate and graduate students.

   Wheelchair access via the Fine Arts Library on Prescott Street; call 617-495-4040 for assistance.

Arthur M. Sackler Museum
485 Broadway

Designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning British architect James Stirling and opened in 1985, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum houses superb collections of ancient, Asian, Islamic, and later Indian art. Among its treasures are the world's finest collections of archaic Chinese jades and Japanese surimono, as well as outstanding Chinese bronzes, ceremonial ancient weapons, and Buddhist cave-temple sculpture; Chinese and Korean ceramics; and Japanese woodblock prints, calligraphy, narrative paintings, and lacquer boxes. The Sackler Museum collections also contain exceptional holdings of works on paper from Mongol, Timurid, and Safavid Iran (14th-17th centuries), Ottoman Turkey (15th-19th centuries), and Rajput and Mughal India. The ancient art department has one of America's most important teaching collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern art, with significant holdings of Greek and Roman sculpture, Greek vases, and ancient coins. The Sackler is also home to offices for the faculty of the History of Art and Architecture, seminar rooms, and a lecture hall.

   Wheelchair accessible.

Busch-Reisinger Museum
32 Quincy Street (entrance through the second floor of the Fogg Art Museum)

The Busch-Reisinger Museum is the only museum in America devoted to promoting the arts of Central and Northern Europe, with a special emphasis on the German-speaking countries. Founded in 1901 as the Germanic Museum, the museum relocated in 1991 to the new Werner Otto Hall, a building adjacent to and accessible through the Fogg Art Museum. The Busch-Reisinger Museum has particularly important holdings of Austrian Secession art, German expressionism, 1920s abstraction, and material related to the Bauhaus. In addition, the Museum has significant holdings of post-war and contemporary art from German-speaking Europe. The collection of unique and editioned artworks by artist Joseph Beuys is among the world's most comprehensive, and the Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection is a remarkable first-owner collection that places Harvard's Fluxus holdings among the most significant in North America.

The Busch-Reisinger Study Room offers students and the public access to collections not on display. The study room is open Tuesday through Friday from 2 pm to 4:45 pm or by appointment (617-495-2317).

Adolphus Busch Hall at 29 Kirkland Street, the former home of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, presently houses plaster casts of medieval art, an exhibition on the history of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and a famous Flentrop pipe organ, used regularly for Harvard's organ concert series. It is open to the public on the second Sunday of each month, from 1 pm to 5 pm. Entry and wheelchair access are on the west side of the building, through the Center for European Studies.

   Wheelchair access to the Busch-Reisinger Museum via the Fine Arts Library on Prescott Street; call 617-495-4040 for assistance.