The Harvard Semitic Museum has changed its name to the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, the museum announced earlier this month. The name change was intended to make the focus of the ...

The director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East replies to Ruth Wisse. ... Ruth Wisse claims that Harvard took “steps to prevent campus unrest—by curtailing the Jewish and Christian ...

Yet it’s hard to see how renaming the institution the “Museum of the Ancient Near East” reflects its mission more accurately than the adjective “Semitic” did.

After an extended shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture and its programs reopened to both Harvard affiliates and the general public last week.

As part of “ArtsThursdays,” the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East hosted “Ancient Game Night” on March 27, where there were ancient board games, craft making and beverages. Heim also urged ...

Tindal will be responsible for leading the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Harvard Collection of ...