Special Event

Free In-Person Event Activities 1:00–3:00 pm Story Time 3:00-3:30 pm Join Harvard Museums of Science & Culture volunteers for hands-on, family-friendly activities at 1:00 pm and a live story reading at 3:00 pm. Recommended for ages 5–12. Admission to the...

Free Hybrid Lecture Event Speaker: Denise M. Doxey, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Queen Khensa was a Nubian royal and principal wife of King Piankhy, the Kushite ruler (664–653...

Special In-Person Event Journey from the Stone Age to the Colonial era with archaeology at two museums. Meet experts in animal bones, Egyptian tombs and hieroglyphs, cave art, Inka khipus, ancient chemical mysteries, and more. Try flintknapping (shaping...

Free Hybrid Lecture Event Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speaker: Rune Nyord, Associate Professor and Chair, Art History Department, Emory University Could some of our familiar ideas about the ancient Egyptian...

Free Hybrid Lecture Event Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Speaker: Christelle Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Brown University The earliest large-scale records of ancient Egyptian religious literature...

Free In-Person Event Join HMSC volunteers for a live story reading and hands-on, family-friendly activities at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Recommended for ages 5–12. Admission to the museum is free. This event will occur on each of the...

This event has been cancelled due to inclement weather. Free In-Person Event Join HMSC volunteers for a live story reading and hands-on, family-friendly activities at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Recommended for ages 5–12. Admission to the...

In-Person Member Event Advance registration required by December 8. Welcome the winter season with HMSC’s most popular member event. Registration is now open. Not a member? Join now so you can join us in December! Sign up for a behind-the-scenes tour of...

Free Hybrid Lecture Speaker: Florence Dunn Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University King Menkaure’s Fourth Dynasty pyramid temples at Giza were once filled with statues. The surviving statues represent some of...

Reservations Closed; Walk-ins Not Permitted Join us for an exclusive preview of a brand-new opera inspired by the timeless Epic of Gilgamesh, in the museum’s Mesopotamian gallery. Advance registration required. Free tickets are limited. Seating is on a...