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September 2026

Saturday, September 5

11 AM

Spotlight Tour: Contained, with Priya Allen ’27 @ 11 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard SquareSeptember 5, 13, and 20tour art

2 PM

Spotlight Tour: Child’s Play, with Ricardo Fernandes Garcia ’27 @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard SquareSeptember 5 and 26tour art

Sunday, September 6

11 AM

Spotlight Tour: Thresholds, with Jane Lilly ’27 @ 11 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard SquareSeptember 6 and 12tour art

2 PM

Spotlight Tour: Model as Muse, with Giselle Acosta ’27 @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard SquareSeptember 6 and 13tour art

Tuesday, September 8

6 PM

Free U.S. Citizenship Class Online @ 6:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squarefree11-week courseworkshop community free

Wednesday, September 9

12 PM

Decompress with Rocky Mountains, “Lander’s Peak” @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart workshop

Thursday, September 10

11 AM

Museum Class: Seeing Art with Matisse [AT CAPACITY] @ 11 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squarefour-week classart workshop

Friday, September 11

11 AM

Art Study Center Seminar: Conversations on Conservation @ 11 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Saturday, September 12

11 AM

Second Saturdays Story Time @ 11 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaresecond Saturday monthlybooks family friendly

2 PM

Spotlight Tour: In the Blink of an Eye, with Jade Xiao ’27 @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard SquareSeptember 12 and 27tour art

Tuesday, September 15

12 PM

Art + Science: Conserving Photographs @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart science talk

1 PM

Gray Area: Truth and Myth in American History @ 1:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Wednesday, September 16

12 PM

Gallery Talk: The 20 × 24 Polaroid Process @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk science

Thursday, September 17

10 AM

Exhibition Preview Day for Friends, Fellows, and Partners @ 10 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart

6 PM

Exhibition Opening Program for On Location: Drawing the Outdoors @ 6 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Saturday, September 19

12 PM

Gallery Talk: On Location: Drawing the Outdoors @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard SquareSeptember 19 and 22art talk

1 PM

Materials Lab Workshop: Landscape Drawing with Optical Devices @ 1 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart workshop

Sunday, September 20

2 PM

Spotlight Tour: Human/Nature, with Luke Tan ’28 @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

Tuesday, September 22

12 PM

Exhibition Tour: The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

Thursday, September 24

5 PM

Harvard Art Museums at Night @ 5 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart food drink date night

Saturday, September 26

12 PM

Exhibition Tour: On Location: Drawing the Outdoors @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

2 PM

Walking Tour: Constructing Nature in Harvard Yard [AT CAPACITY] @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art outdoors

Sunday, September 27

11 AM

Spotlight Tour: Coloring the Past, with Jide Anekwe ’28 @ 11 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

Wednesday, September 30

6 PM

Exhibition Opening Program for The Way We Never Were: Barbara Norfleet and Photography at Harvard @ 6 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

October 2026

Thursday, October 1

12 PM

Gallery Talk: Crafting Perfect Portraits with Photographic Proof Prints @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Friday, October 2

12 PM

Exhibition Tour: The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart tour

2 PM

First/Hand Fridays: Power and Desire in Ancient Art @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Saturday, October 3

9 AM

Coffee with Curators for Friends of the Museums @ 9 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

11 AM

Spotlight Tour: Thresholds, with Jane Lilly ’27 @ 11 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart tour

12 PM

Exhibition Tour: On Location: Drawing the Outdoors @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart tour

1 PM

Film Screening and Conversation: The Atomic Cafe @ 1:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squarefilm talk

2 PM

Spotlight Tour: Human/Nature, with Luke Tan ’28 @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart tour

Wednesday, October 7

1 PM

Materials Lab Workshop: Color Alchemy—Pigments and DIY Paint [AT CAPACITY] @ 1 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart workshop

2 PM

A Stroll through History at the Harvard Art Museums @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

6 PM

American Art Curators in Conversation @ 6 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Thursday, October 8

12 PM

Gallery Talk: On Location: Drawing the Outdoors @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Saturday, October 10

11 AM

Second Saturdays Story Time @ 11 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squarebooks family friendly

Tuesday, October 13

6 PM

Pınar Öğrenci: Good Luck in Germany @ 6 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk film

Sunday, October 18

2 PM

Materials Lab Workshop: How to Draw a Pot @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart workshop

Wednesday, October 21

12 PM

Gallery Talk: Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, and Their Avant-Garde Circle @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Thursday, October 22

2 PM

Walking Tour: Reading the Urban Landscape @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art outdoors

Wednesday, October 28

12 PM

Multi-Site Exhibition Tour: Alfonso Ossorio: Line and Lineage and Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart tour

Thursday, October 29

12 PM

Gallery Talk: Hauntology, Death Discs, and the Specter of Postwar America @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

5 PM

Harvard Art Museums at Night @ 5 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart food drink date night

6 PM

Artist Talk: Sneha Shrestha @ 6 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

November 2026

Monday, November 2

12 PM

Monday Moments for Friends, Fellows, and Partners @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart

Wednesday, November 4

12 PM

Gallery Talk: Picturing Taste, Style, and Space in 1950s American Suburbia @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

6 PM

Artist Talk: Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien @ 6 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Thursday, November 5

12 PM

Multi-Site Exhibition Tour: Artists Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien at the Harvard Art Museums and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart tour

Friday, November 6

1 PM

Materials Lab Workshop: Making an Impression @ 1 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart workshop

2 PM

First/Hand Fridays: Suit Up! Textiles in 20th-Century American Memory @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Wednesday, November 11

10 AM

Museums Closed @ 10 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart

Tuesday, November 17

2 PM

Pop-Up Renaissance Concert @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaremusic

Wednesday, November 18

12 PM

Multi-Site Exhibition Tour: Alfonso Ossorio: Line and Lineage and Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

Thursday, November 19

12 PM

Gallery Talk: On Location: Drawing the Outdoors @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Friday, November 20

1 PM

Materials Lab Workshop: Casting Connections—Molds, Replicas, and Questions of Authorship @ 1 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareworkshop art

Thursday, November 26

10 AM

Museums Closed for Thanksgiving @ 10 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart seasonal

December 2026

Wednesday, December 2

6 PM

John Constable and the Outdoors: Writing about Drawing @ 6 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretalk art

Thursday, December 3

5 PM

Harvard Art Museums at Night @ 5 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart food drink date night seasonal

Friday, December 4

12 PM

Exhibition Tour: The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

2 PM

First/Hand Fridays: Emergent Grounds—Drawing as Public Practice @ 2 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Wednesday, December 9

12 PM

Multi-Site Exhibition Tour: Alfonso Ossorio: Line and Lineage and Knowledge Is Myth: Chimeric Continuities @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

6 PM

The Material Culture of Islamic Calligraphy @ 6 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretalk art

Thursday, December 10

12 PM

Gallery Talk: The Gelatin Silver Print @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Saturday, December 12

11 AM

Second Saturdays Story Time @ 11 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaresecond Saturday of the monthbooks family friendly art

12 PM

Exhibition Tour: On Location: Drawing the Outdoors @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

Thursday, December 24

10 AM

Museums Closed on Christmas Eve @ 10 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareseasonal

Friday, December 25

10 AM

Museums Closed on Christmas Day @ 10 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareseasonal

January 2027

Friday, January 1

10 AM

Museums Closed on New Year’s Day @ 10 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareseasonal

Saturday, January 16

12 PM

Exhibition Tour: On Location: Drawing the Outdoors @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

Tuesday, January 19

10 AM

Museums Closed for Yearly Maintenance @ 10 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaredaily January 19–22, 2027community

Wednesday, January 20

10 AM

Museums Closed for Yearly Maintenance @ 10 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaredaily January 19–22, 2027community

Thursday, January 21

10 AM

Museums Closed for Yearly Maintenance @ 10 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaredaily January 19–22, 2027community

Friday, January 22

10 AM

Museums Closed for Yearly Maintenance @ 10 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaredaily January 19–22, 2027community

Thursday, January 28

12 PM

Gallery Talk: The 20 × 24 Polaroid Process @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

February 2027

Tuesday, February 2

12 PM

Gallery Talk: Redlining and the Visual Culture of Suburbia @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Thursday, February 4

12 PM

Exhibition Tour: The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

March 2027

Wednesday, March 3

12 PM

Gallery Talk: Alfonso Ossorio: Line and Lineage @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Wednesday, March 31

12 PM

Gallery Talk: The Gelatin Silver Print @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

April 2027

Tuesday, April 6

12 PM

Gallery Talk: Material Experimentation in Alfonso Ossorio: Line and Lineage @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Friday, April 9

12 PM

Gallery Talk: Alfonso Ossorio: Line and Lineage @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Tuesday, April 27

12 PM

Gallery Talk: Crafting Perfect Portraits with Photographic Proof Prints @ 12:30 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareart talk

Wednesday, April 28

12 PM

Exhibition Tour: The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

May 2027

Thursday, May 6

12 PM

Exhibition Tour: The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection @ 12 PMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squaretour art

June 2027

Friday, June 18

10 AM

Museums Closed @ 10 AMHarvard Art Museums, Harvard Squareseasonal