About the museum
The story of the Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts, bring together the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. They reopened in 2014 in a building by Renzo Piano with a glass roof over the historic courtyard.
They are especially rich in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, German Expressionism and drawings.
The collection
The Harvard Art Museums hold around 250,000 objects. The Fogg Museum covers Western art from the Middle Ages to today, the Busch-Reisinger Museum German-speaking art and the Bauhaus, and the Sackler Museum Asian, ancient and Islamic art.
Their paintings include Van Gogh's Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin, Monet, Degas, Renoir, and the Maurice Wertheim collection of French modern art, together with a celebrated study centre for drawings.
At ArtLogia you can order 50 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 34 artists led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gustave Moreau and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
- paintings to order
- 50
- artists
- 34
- art movements
- 13
- years covered
- 1450–1894
The building
Renzo Piano's renovation, completed in 2014, kept the Fogg's 1927 Georgian Revival building and its Italian Renaissance-style courtyard and added a glass roof that lights the galleries and conservation studios.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
Admission is free, and the courtyard is a good place to start; the museums are a few minutes from Harvard Yard.
