ArtsThursdays at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

Free In-Person Event

Join us for a free night at two of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Come with a date, come with friends, or make new friends while strolling through the galleries. All ages are welcome.

• Learn about Agua, Sol y Sereno–a Puerto Rican art collective in residency at the museums, and enjoy a sneak peek of a public performance to be presented at the September 27 ¡Celebremos Puerto Rico! festival.
• Enjoy short performances from 6:00–7:00 pm, of salsa, bachata, merengue, and bomba, a traditional Afro-Puerto Rican dance, by Harvard Undergraduate Candela Latin Dance Troupe.
• Visit the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and marvel at the internationally acclaimed Glass Flowers, and the sparkling Earth & Planetary Sciences gallery.
• Visit the Peabody Museum and check out Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic, an exhibition that blends photography and collected beach debris to prompt reflection on humanity’s deep entanglement with plastic.
• Enjoy a variety of beverages for sale (valid government ID required to consume
• Get started with your holiday shopping at the unique Shop at HMNH.
• Enter a free raffle to win museum gifts and a household membership.

Let us know you are coming! RSVPs are encouraged, but walk-in visitors are always welcome.

Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage, 4:30–9:30 pm. Enter at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

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

Photo © Jessie James