Online Resources

Online Resources

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Featured Online Exhibition

Inspired by the ideas of home and away associated with the iconic and transnational balikbayan box, Filipino and Filipino-American contributors share their reflections on Peabody Museum collections.

Detail of balikbayan box.

Online Exhibitions

Online exhibitions draw inspiration from cultures all over the world.

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Featured Video: "The Problem with Skin Color

Harvard professor Evelynn Hammonds discusses the problem with skin color, part of the exhibition All the World is Here: Harvard's Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology.

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The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes

To Make Their Own Way in the World:

To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes features essays by prominent scholars from the disciplines of history, anthropology, art history, and American studies exploring such topics as the identities and experiences of the seven people depicted in the daguerreotypes, the close relationship between photography and race in the nineteenth century, and visual narratives of slavery and its lasting effects.

HMSC Connects!

Digital resources of the four Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC)—including the Peabody Museum—are brought together in new and exciting ways. HMSC Connects! includes a podcast, coloring pages, Extraordinary Things, exhibit spotlights, fun for families, and more. 

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Collections Online

Collections Online provides access to approximately 700,000 database records and over 600,000 associated digital media records. You can do a quick search, a more advanced search, or browse preselected groups of commonly requested objects.

six objects from collection.

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