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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...

"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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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.

Following an international search, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, is pleased to announce the selection of Munem Wasif as the 2023 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography. The fellowship provides a $50,000 stipend to begin...

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University is pleased to present Shehuo: Community Fire, a new exhibit by Zhang Xiao, the 11th recipient of the museum's Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography. The exhibition will open on...

The President and Fellows of Harvard College have transferred ownership of an Alutiiq/Sugpiaq kayak to the Alutiiq Museum, a tribal repository and cultural center in Kodiak, Alaska. Made in the mid-19th century, the 14-and-a-half foot, skin-covered boat...