Announcements

On Thursday November 10th the Museum will be releasing information from a collection that is associated with Native American children in U.S. Indian Boarding Schools and other Indigenous relatives. This collection contains hair samples assembled by...

Beloved former colleague Daniel Jones (AB 1947) passed away peacefully on October 8, 2022, shortly before his 103 rd birthday. Following a long and successful career at NBC Television, Dan joined the Peabody Museum as archivist from 1974–1986. Over the...

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, is pleased to announce that following an international search, photographer Lee Kai Chung has been selected as the 2022 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography. The fellowship provides a $50...

On Friday, June 3, 2022, a delegation from the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, including several members of Tribal Council and staff, visited the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University for a ceremony returning the pipe-tomahawk owned by...

The Peabody Museum is delighted to announce that Stephanie Mach has accepted the position of Curator of North American Ethnographic Collections and will be starting in early April 2022. Stephanie Mach (Diné) is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and an...

The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions at the Peabody Museum is delighted to announce a new collaboration between Dumbarton Oaks Publications and the museum that will continue to bring the wealth of data and documentation on Maya monuments and sites...