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Painted Maya chocolate vessel on display in Encounters with the Americas

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & EthnologyHarvard Square, Cambridge

Encounters with the Americas

Now showingPermanent collection$20

Classic Maya and Postclassic Aztec material sets up the story of 1492 and after, alongside contemporary Maya, Guna and Amazonian communities defending their land, language and autonomy.

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Poster image for Swimming with Sharks at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

Swimming with Sharks: A Deep Dive into Shark Biology and Behavior

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Specimen on display in Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow's Discoveries at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

Collecting Wonders: Tomorrow's Discoveries

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Introduction to the History of Art

Harvard Art Museums

All exhibitions in Boston this month Coming up in November

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Exterior of the Harvard Museum of Natural History on Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Children1 min walk
Exterior of the Harvard Art Museums at 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, showing the 1927 neo-Georgian Fogg Museum facade

Harvard Art Museums

ArtFree5 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

ArchitectureFree6 min walk

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