ArtsThursdays: Light Up the Museums!

Date: 

Thursday, March 30, 2023, 5:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Museum of Natural History & Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

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Free Evening Event

Join us for a free night at two of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Enjoy handcrafted mocktails by CraftHouse Bartending and desserts in the galleries. Take some snaps in our photo booth, or lounge around in our light-up chairs while participating in museum-themed crafts. Food and drinks are complimentary, but supplies are limited so come early and stay late!

 

All Ages Welcome

 

ArtsThursdays is a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA)

 

This program is part of the HMSC 10-Year Anniversary Celebration.

 

About the Museums

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Visit the new exhibits Swimming with Sharks and In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, as well as the world-famous Glass Flowers. Find your birthstone in the newly renovated mineral gallery, stand before giant tigers, and view dinosaur fossils in the paleontology gallery.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Explore towering Maya sculptures in the Latin American galleries and discover the early days of American anthropology as shown in the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. See nineteenth-century Plains Indian warrior art in an exhibit co-curated by Hunkpapa Lakota artist and tribal educator Butch Thunder Hawk.

HMSC 10 Year Anniversary logo.ArtsThursdays logo.

 

See also: Special Events