News and Announcements

Caspian: The Elements Exhibit to Open in April 2019

Caspian: The Elements Exhibit

Caspian: The Elements will be a new exhibit featuring the evocative imagery of Chloe Dewe Mathews, the 2014 recipient of the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography. The exhibit will document her extraordinary five-year journey through the contested borderlands of the Caspian Sea.

Listen to Native American Poetry in Harvard’s Peabody Museum, October–November 2018

In a limited pilot program, eight Native American poets may be heard reading their work in the galleries of Harvard University’s anthropology museum, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.

Museum Admission Rates Increase on September 4, 2018

Effective September 4, 2018, the admission price at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology will increase. The new admission rates are: adults, $15; seniors (65 and over), $13; college students and youth (3-18 years old), $10.

Kalahari Perspectives: Anthropology, Photography, and the Marshall Family to Open September 29, 2018 at Harvard’s Peabody Museum

(Cambridge, MA) In June 1951, Raytheon founder Laurence Marshall and his family left Cambridge, Massachusetts to spend over a decade documenting hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari during a series of expeditions sponsored by Harvard’s Peabody Museum. The family’s photos of the Ju/’hoansi and /Gwi peoples—once known pejoratively as the “Bushmen” —heralded a transformation in the ways these Indigenous people had been represented through history.

Zhang Xiao Named 2018 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography

Peabody Curator wins 2017 Collier Prize

Ian Graham, British Mayanist and Peabody Colleague dies at 93

Ian James Alastair Graham (1923–2017), long-time Peabody scholar and resident of Cambridge, died peacefully on August 1st, 2017, in Suffolk England at the age of 93. Ian lived a marvelous, adventurous, and productive life and has been recognized as a maverick genius, the “last explorer,” and a fierce advocate as well as a guiding force in the protection and preservation of sites and monuments across the Maya region. In 1968, he initiated the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions project, which became a permanent program under the auspices of the Peabody Museum.