ArtsThursdays at HMSC

Date and Time

February 23, 2023
05:00PM - 09:00PM EST

Location

Harvard Museum of Natural History & Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

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Harvard Museum of Natural History & Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Free Evening Event

Celebrate the 10-Year Anniversary of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture! Explore galleries while sipping signature drinks and enjoying treats. Collect museum swag, participate in activities, and enter raffles to win museum gifts. Visit hmsc.harvard.edu for details. Free and open to the public.

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Visit the new exhibits Swimming with Sharks and In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, as well as the world-famous Glass Flowers. Find your birthstone in the newly renovated mineral gallery, see large tigers, and view dinosaur fossils in the paleontology gallery.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Explore towering Maya sculptures in the Latin American galleries and discover the early days of American anthropology as shown in the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. See 19th-century Plains Indian warrior art in an exhibit co-curated by Hunkpapa Lakota artist and tribal educator Butch Thunder Hawk.

Photo © Tony Rinaldo

ArtsThursdays is a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) 

This program is part of HMSC’s 10-Year Anniversary celebration.

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HMSC 10-year anniversary logo.