Harvard University
With a history of fostering and promoting the best in intellectual
achievements and endeavours, Harvard University is rich
in history and offers tours to the public.
MIT Museum
The MIT Museum features permanent collections that include
art, drawings, photographs, artifacts, and holograms; collections
include the Science and Technology Collection, the Holography
Collection, the Hart Nautical Collection, the Architecture
and Design Collection, and a general collection that documents---
through artifacts, drawings, paintings, art objects, and
much more--- the history of the university and the influence
that MIT has had upon developments in science, technology
and engineering.
Hooper/Lee/Nichols House
This historic house is now in a Georgian style, but incorporates
within itself what is believed to be the oldest house in
Cambridge; originally constructed in the late 1600s, the
house has endured many changes and additions throughout
its three-hundred-year history. The tours offered of this
historic dwelling showcase the importance and significance
that the alterations and growth of the house add to its
historical importance, the tracing of which is correlated
with changes in culture, taste, architecture, economics,
and history itself.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
The Sackler Museum boasts an extensive collection of antiquarian
art, with examples from many times, cultures and locations;
included in the collection are works that explore Ancient,
Asian, Islamic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Roman, and Greek
art, and, through the study of the art, encourages an exploration
of the histories and cultures of these divergent places
and periods as well.
Old Burying Ground
This historic cemetery is the site of the graves of eight
Harvard presidents, as well as the graves of African American
volunteers who were veterans of the American Revolutionary
War, such as Cato, Steadman, and Neptune Frost.
Harvard University Museums
Harvard offers a great selection of fine museums, including
several art museums, a selection of Natural History museums
that include a Botanical Garden, a Mineralogical and Geological
Museum, and a Museum of Comparative Zoology; other museums
and collections include the Arnold Arboretum, a collection
of historical scientific instruments, a museum devoted to
forest history and ecology, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology, and a Semitic Museum that houses a collection
of Near Eastern archaeological artifacts.
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
With the mission of promoting cross-cultural interchange
and using the arts to bridge the gaps of difference and
ignorance that fuel racism and other forms of bigotry, the
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center presents a high calibre
of arts and humanities programs; located in the wonderfully
renovated Bulfinch Square Complex, the CMAC presents dance
productions, theatre productions, art exhibitions, musical
performances, and is the setting for enriching community
dialogues.
ImprovBoston
In operation since 1982, this theatre is
known for its innovative offerings of improvisational theatre;
the main-stage shows are critically acclaimed, and the theatre
is known for its major role in the development, promotion,
performance, and catalytic influence on the evolution of
the art of improvisation in the Cambridge area. Educational
programs are also offered.
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Among the first garden cemeteries ever constructed, this
graveyard is the site of the final resting places of such
notables as Charles Bulfinch, Winslow Homer, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
List Visual Arts Center
The aim of this museum is to promote and present the cutting
edge in art of all media that challenges the viewer; in
an effort to display art that inspires intellectual exploration,
the exhibits present contemporary art that makes us stop
and reevaluate the world in which we live. By offering art
that does not concentrate solely on traditional ideas of
aesthetics, the LVAC hopes to awaken in the viewer an even
stronger desire to explore art that examines the cultural,
social, and sometimes, scientific or economic, contexts
that surround us; to expose, rethink, and represent aspects
of our world. In short, the goal of the museum seems to
be the goal of most great art: to shift the perception of
the viewer in a way that the mundane world is seen suddenly
in a new light, in a new way, that makes the commonplace
world transform into something new for jaded eyes.
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