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.