Translating Encounters: Travel and Transformation in the Early Seventeenth Century (Special Exhibition)
Broadly explores the responses by Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans in the age of colonial exploration, as each struggled to comprehend the other.
Museum admission - Tickets: $9/adults; $7/senior citizens and students; $6/children ages 3-18; free for children under 3. Free admission (for MA residents only) on Sun. mornings 9-noon, except for groups, and free admission on Wed. afternoons, Sept.-May, 3-5 PM. A price increase is in effect as of Sept. 1, 2012: $12/adults; $10/seniors (65+); $10 non-Harvard students (with ID); $8/ages 3-18; under 3 free.
From Daguerreotype to Digital: Photography and Anthropology (Special Exhibition)
Explores how photographic innovations helped anthropologists expand the study of world cultures with photographs, cameras, and video.
Museum admission - Tickets: $9/adults; $7/senior citizens and students; $6/children ages 3-18; free for children under 3. Free admission (for MA residents only) on Sun. mornings 9-noon, except for groups, and free admission on Wed. afternoons, Sept.-May, 3-5 PM. A price increase is in effect as of Sept. 1, 2012: $12/adults; $10/seniors (65+); $10 non-Harvard students (with ID); $8/ages 3-18; under 3 free.
Digging Veritas: The Archaeology and History of the Indian College and Student Life at Colonial Harvard (Special Exhibition)
Shows how today’s Harvard students understand the role of the Indian College and student life in Harvard’s early years. Student archaeologists unearthed evidence of colonial Harvard as a landscape shaped by social and religious tensions.
Museum admission - Tickets: $9/adults; $7/senior citizens and students; $6/children ages 3-18; free for children under 3. Free admission (for MA residents only) on Sun. mornings 9-noon, except for groups, and free admission on Wed. afternoons, Sept.-May, 3-5 PM. A price increase is in effect as of Sept.
Conservators at Work: Alaska's Historic Kayaks Renewed (Special Exhibition)
Features conservators working in the Hall of the North American Indian gallery on historic Alutiiq kayaks and more. (Through June 30, 2013: Mondays from 12 to 3 PM, Tuesdays and Wednesdays 2 to 5 PM. Special hours Monday, September 10, 2012: 11 AM to 2 PM)
Free with Museum admission.
Tickets: $9/adults; $7/senior citizens and students; $6/children ages 3-18; free for children under 3. Free admission (for MA residents only) on Sun. mornings 9-noon, except for groups, and free admission on Wed. afternoons, Sept.-May, 3-5 PM. A price increase is in effect as of Sept.
Conservators at Work: Alaska's Historic Kayaks Renewed (Special Exhibition)
Features conservators working in the Hall of the North American Indian gallery on historic Alutiiq kayaks and more. (Through June 30, 2013: Mondays from 12 to 3 PM, Tuesdays and Wednesdays 2 to 5 PM. Special hours Monday, September 10, 2012: 11 AM to 2 PM)
Free with Museum admission.
Tickets: $9/adults; $7/senior citizens and students; $6/children ages 3-18; free for children under 3. Free admission (for MA residents only) on Sun. mornings 9-noon, except for groups, and free admission on Wed. afternoons, Sept.-May, 3-5 PM. A price increase is in effect as of Sept.
Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West (ongoing)
Presents historic colored drawings by 19th-century Plains Indian warriors with historic Lakota objects from the Peabody’s collections. The gallery was designed with contemporary Lakota artist and co-curator Butch Thunder Hawk.
Open House/Pilgrim History & Hayride
Tuesday, Nov. 6th– Open House -Pilgrim History & Hayride 12 – 2PM We cordially invite all families, and homeschoolers, to join us for “Pilgrim History”. This is one of our most popular November educational programs that we offer. History comes to life as all of our tour guides for this program are in costume. Children will learn about the Pilgrims home life, the chores Pilgrim children were responsible for, the games Pilgrim children played, and also about the Pilgrim’s relationship to Native Americans. The program concludes with a hayride that goes through the Cattail Creek.
Open House/Day In The Life Of A Farmer Sharp's at Waterford Farm
Friday, Oct. 19 – Open House -Day In The Life Of A Farmer 1-2:30
This is one of our most popular fall educational programs that we offer. Included in the program is a farm class on beekeeping and farm crops & a new presentation on growing cotton. Everyone gets to feed our friendly animals, go through the mini corn maze, take a hayride that goes through the Cattail Creek, and harvest your own pumpkin to take home with you, an ear of popcorn, and a boll of cotton! The program will begin at 1 PM and is 1 ½ hours long. The cost is $7.00/child.