What's on in Boston
The Soul of Flame II ruby brooch from the Ikhor Collection, shown in the Rubies Exhibit Spotlight

Harvard Museum of Natural HistoryHarvard Square, Cambridge

Rubies

Now showingPermanent collection$20

An intimate Exhibit Spotlight in the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery on the red variety of corundum: its chromium glow under UV light, its rutile "silk" inclusions, and ruby jewellery.

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On nowAll of October 2026

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Azadeh Akhlaghi's staged photograph of the 1912 death of Zeynab Pasha, the Mother of Tabriz

From Iran: A Visual Testimony

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Introduction to the History of Art

Harvard Art Museums

On Location: Drawing the Outdoors

Harvard Art Museums

All exhibitions in Boston this month Coming up in November

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Brick exterior of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology on Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

History1 min walk
Exterior of the Harvard Art Museums at 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, showing the 1927 neo-Georgian Fogg Museum facade

Harvard Art Museums

ArtFree6 min walk
East view of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Le Corbusier's concrete building with its cantilevered ramp, at Harvard University in Cambridge

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

ArchitectureFree7 min walk

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