Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

http://www.harvardartmuseum.org

Type: Art Museum

Collection Highlights: Among its treasures are the world's finest collections of archaic Chinese jades and Japanese surimono, as well as outstanding Chinese bronzes, ceremonial ancient weapons, and Buddhist cave-temple sculpture; Chinese and Korean ceramics; and Japanese woodblock prints, calligraphy, narrative paintings, and lacquer boxes. The Sackler Museum collections also contain exceptional holdings of works on paper from Mongol, Timurid, and Safavid Iran (14th–17th centuries), Ottoman Turkey (15th–19th centuries), and Rajput and Mughal India. The ancient art department has one of America's most important teaching collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern art, with significant holdings of Greek and Roman sculpture, Greek vases, and ancient coins.


About Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning British architect James Stirling and opened in 1985, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum has holdings of ancient, Asian, Islamic, and later Indian art.

In 2008, the Arthur M. Sackler Museum was reinstalled with works from the Harvard Art Museum's three museums ­ Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler ­ for a unique exhibition entitled Re-View. The survey of approximately 600 objects includes major and familiar works and features Western art from antiquity to the turn of the 20th century, Islamic and Asian art, and European and American art from 1900 to the present. Re-View is on long-term view at the Sackler Museum and provides a selected, ongoing display of the Harvard Art Museum's collection while its building at 32 Quincy Street is closed for renovation.