Harvard Art Museums

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• In June 2008, Harvard's Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums closed for renovations scheduled to last 5 years. The Sackler Museum will stay open and show highlights from all three institutions' collections. Before you add this stop to your itinerary, check the website for specifics of what's on exhibit -- I for one can't wait to see what kind of lemonade the inventive curators will make from this lemon-scented situation, but you may feel differently.

  The collections of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and the Sackler museums encompass a quarter-million works, from ancient sculptures to contemporary photos. The Arthur M. Sackler Museum houses Harvard's world-famous collections of Asian, ancient, Islamic, and Later Indian art. Here you'll find internationally renowned Chinese jades, superb Roman sculpture, Greek vases, Korean ceramics, Japanese woodblock prints, and Persian miniature paintings and calligraphy. The Fogg Museum's holdings include everything from 17th-century Dutch and Flemish landscapes to Impressionist masterpieces to contemporary sculpture. The Busch-Reisinger Museum's specialty is the art of northern and central Europe, specifically Germany; the early-20th-century holdings are particularly notable. Exhibit spaces also serve as teaching and research facilities; keep an ear out for instructors leading classes.

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