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The Making of a Replica

July 23, 2026

When the Uncovering Pacific Pasts exhibition opened in 2020, a beautiful siapo—tapa or painted barkcloth from Samoa—was placed on display. As of May 2025, there is a replica in its place. What is a replica and why isn’t the original siapo on display...

Stephanie Syjuco Named 2026 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography

June 24, 2026

Stephanie Syjuco photo by Kija Lucas Born in the Philippines (1974) and based in Oakland, California, Stephanie Syjuco is an artist and Professor in Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. During her non-residential fellowship, she will...

Peabody Museum Admission Rates Increase July 1, 2026

June 09, 2026

Effective July 1, 2026, admission prices at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Museum of Natural History will increase. Museum admission rates were last updated in September 2018. The new general admission rates will be: Adults...

Special Exhibit: Washington's Sash

April 07, 2026

On view in All the World Is Here May 25–October 18, 2026 Presented to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. This blue sash, faded by time, symbolizes the dream of America.

Azadeh Akhlaghi Exhibition "From Iran: A Visual Testimony" to Open at Harvard’s Peabody Museum May 15

March 24, 2026

Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic to Open at Harvard’s Peabody Museum May 17

April 09, 2025

Leer en español (April 9, 2025 CAMBRIDGE, Mass) The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University is pleased to present Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic, an innovative exhibition by the art collective TRES. The exhibition opens to the...

Reviving the Past: !Khwa ttu Celebrates San Heritage with the Marshall Archive Exhibition

November 15, 2024

"The !Khwa ttu San Culture and Education Centre near Yzerfontein recently celebrated a significant milestone in its ongoing journey to preserve and share the rich heritage of the San people. The centre recently hosted partners from the United States...

New Online Exhibition Launches

June 04, 2024

Balikbayan | Homecoming: Filipino Perspectives on the Philippine Collections, a new online exhibition, launched in May during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The exhibition features thirteen Filipino and Filipino-American thinkers...

Wendel A. White Photo Exhibition, Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, to Open at Harvard’s Peabody Museum May 18

March 25, 2024

“These artifacts are the forensic evidence of Black life and events in the United States.” —Wendel A. White A midcentury voting machine. A shoe, perhaps made and worn by an African American Civil War soldier. A pair of baby dolls from a famed science...

Harvard’s Peabody Museum Shares 32,000 Newly Digitized Historic Photos of Kalahari Desert Indigenous Peoples

November 15, 2023

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University is pleased to have completed a 3-year project to make over 32,000 photos and over 20,000 records of the Marshall Family Archives digitally available to all. The collection of photographic...

Message from Jane Pickering, William & Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum

November 06, 2023

It has been one year since my staff and I wrote to Tribal Nations with the difficult news of a collection of hair clippings taken from Indigenous people around the world. The collection was amassed by anthropologist George Edward Woodbury in the early...

Peabody Museum Charts Progress on Repatriation

October 26, 2023

NAGPRA project staff doubled to support three-year commitment for the transfer of legal authority, control and decisions for all ancestors and their associated funerary belongings to Tribal Nations. Read the full Harvard Gazette story.