Where:
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Art, History, University
Event website:
https://bit.ly/40mEM3p
On this tour, Emily Feng ’25 will guide you in a search for images of birds in the museums’ galleries and will talk about the joy that comes from birdwatching. She will also reflect on how artists have represented birds across various cultures and eras. The works on the tour will include a selection of ancient Greek coins featuring birds, the painting Two Owls at Sunset (c. 1860), temporarily on loan to us from the Terra Foundation for American Art, and Lyonel Feininger’s Bird Cloud (1926).
Spotlight Tours offer a chance to explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums through the eyes of a Harvard student. Free and open to the public, these tours start outside the museum shop on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 2pm. Drop in and join the conversation! And find out what the Student Guides are up to anytime on Instagram @harvardarthappens.
Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the tour. Tours are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.