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Learn about the artwork and current exhibition in Venice by Jennifer West, drawing from her 2025 Smithsonian Art Research Fellowship with the Harvard Plate Stacks. This event will take place in Venice, Italy, and will be livestreamed. Schedule of Events...

The Harvard Plate Stacks is excited to be appart of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture's I ♥ Science. Find members of the Plate Stacks team among the galleries of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, among other scientists, organizations, and...

Historic Change: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Vera Rubin at Harvard's Sanders Theatre Join us for an out-of-this-world program celebrating the release of the new Dr. Vera Rubin quarter! Part of the American Women Quarters™ Program , which...

2025 marks the centennial of Stellar Atmospheres , Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin’s groundbreaking PhD dissertation—the first astronomy PhD awarded by Harvard, and a foundational text in astrophysics. For her research, Payne-Gaposchkin drew on more than forty...

Join us for an exclusive tour of the Harvard Plate Stacks, where history, science, and art converge. Explore our extraordinary collection up close, including some of its most significant objects. In celebration of the newly published book Attention is...

Artist Ligia Bouton will discuss her new art installation, 25 Stars: A Temporary Monument for Henrietta Swan Leavitt, in the MBTA's Kendall/MIT Northbound Subway Station. The artist will give a 45-minute talk about her artistic practice and research into...

A recording of the October 8 book talk is available below in the "talk recording" tab. Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, and the Harvard Library welcomes Anna Von Mertens...