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Harvard Film Archive
The Harvard Film Archive is one of the largest and most significant university-based motion picture collections in the United States. It also presents an ongoing series of public screenings of classic and contemporary cinema. -
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library
The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, which includes the Rare Book Collection and Image Collection and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA), collects materials to support scholarship in Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian studies and Garden and Landscape studies. -
Center for Hellenic Studies Library
Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies, located in Washington DC, was founded by means of an endowment made "exclusively for the establishment of an educational center in the field of Hellenic Studies designed to rediscover the humanism of the Hellenic Greeks." This humanistic vision remains the driving force of the Center for Hellenic Studies. -
Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library (Jamaica Plain)
The Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library is a specialized research collection devoted to the study of woody plants. The collections contain more than 40,000 volumes, 30,000 photographs and an archive that documents the Arboretum's history and is a repository for other 19th, 20th and 21st century horticultural and botanical collections. -
Woodberry Poetry Room
Home to a collection of 20th and 21st century English-language poetry materials, the Poetry Room features a circulating collection of poetry monographs, anthologies, journals, magazines, audio recordings and Blue Star collection of rare manuscripts. The Woodberry Poetry Room's audio collection comprises over 5,000 recordings including readings, lectures, informal conversations, oral histories, interviews, radio broadcasts and, more recently, answering-machine poems. -
Harvard Tozzer Library
Tozzer Library was founded in 1866 as the Peabody Museum Library. Tozzer collects broadly in all subfields of anthropology, with an emphasis on the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The library collects broadly in all subfields: cultural and social anthropology, biological and physical anthropology, archaeology, and anthropological linguistics, with a special emphasis on materials relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. -
Harvard Houghton Library
Houghton is the primary repository for Harvard's rare books and manuscripts. The wealth of primary source material is managed by an expert staff and augmented by exhibitions, lectures, seminars, publications and courses. -
Harvard-Yenching Library
Harvard-Yenching Library is Harvard University's primary resource for research materials on traditional and modern East Asia. -
Harvard Map Collections
The Harvard Map Collection is one of the largest and oldest collections of cartographic materials in the United States. The collections include rare editions of Mercator, Ortelius, and Ptolemaic atlases and large-scale current topographic maps. -
Fung Library
The Fung Library collects materials, primarily in the social sciences, to support the advanced study of China, Japan, Russia and Eurasia, and to further the research and teaching of the FAS and the University on these geographic regions. -
Harvard Fine Arts Library
The Fine Arts Library provides research and curricular support for all areas in the history of art, architecture, photography, and the decorative arts. -
Loeb Music Library
The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library provides services that support the curriculum in music as well as the music needs of the greater Harvard community. Study spaces include reading rooms, individual and collaborative listening/viewing spaces and carrels. -
Cabot Science Library
Cabot is Harvard's principal general science library. In addition to serving undergraduates, the library has research collections in mathematics, statistics, earth and planetary sciences, psychology and science-related interdisciplinary studies. -
Lamont Library
Lamont Library was the first university library building in the United States specifically planned for undergraduates. This revolutionary library became the primary collection supporting study and instruction in the new undergraduate curriculum. -
Widener Library
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library is Harvard University's flagship library. Built with a gift from Eleanor Elkins Widener, it is a memorial to her son, Harry, Class of 1907, an enthusiastic young bibliophile who perished aboard the Titanic. -
Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser Digital Teaching & Learning Studio
State-of-the-art video capture studio to experiment with new teaching methods, sign up available to all Harvard faculty. -
Harvard College Library (teaching and curricular resources)
Provides classes, workshops, consulting, and course development for use of libraries and their materials. -
Harvard Semitic Museum
Founded in 1889, the Harvard Semitic Museum houses more than 40,000 Near Eastern artifacts, mostly from museum-sponsored excavations in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Tunisia. We use these collections to investigate and teach Near Eastern archaeology, history, and culture. The Harvard Semitic Museum is one of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC). -
Museum of Comparative Zoology
The Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard University is a center for research and education focused on the comparative relationships of animal life. -
Mineralogical and Geological Museum
The Mineralogical & Geological Museum at Harvard University (MGMH) is committed to the development and preservation of world-class collections of minerals, rocks, ores, meteorites and gems for research, education, and public display. We strive to meet the needs of students and faculty at Harvard University as well the geological community and public at large by serving as a uniquely rich resource of materials and information.
