Insider Look: The Newly Reopened Harvard Art Museums

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    The Harvard Art Museums are now open after several years of renovation and expansion. Click through this gallery to get a peek at the museums’ new spaces. An aerial view of the museums in Cambridge, Mass.

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    A view of the Harvard Art Museums from the adjacent Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.

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    The Calderwood Courtyard and the new glass roof.

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    A view of the upper arcades around the Calderwood Courtyard.

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    A view of the new Art Study Center, located on Level 4 of the new museums.

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    The expanded Art Study Center is the perfect place for close sustained looking at original works of art.

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    The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, located on Level 5 of the new museums.

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    Views into the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies can be experienced by the public in the Lightbox Gallery on Level 5 and the Art Study Center reception area on Level 4 (pictured here).

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    The Lightbox Gallery, offering dramatic views at the museums’ summit, will present digital information about the museums’ holdings in experimental and imaginative ways.

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    The new 300-seat Menschel Hall, featuring state-of-the-art projection systems, will serve as a venue for a broad array of dynamic public programming.

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    A gallery at the new Harvard Art Museums, with Buddhist works from the collections of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum

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    A gallery at the new Harvard Art Museums, with photographs from the collection of the Fogg Museum

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    Galleries at the new Harvard Art Museums, with works from the collection of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums.

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    A view of the south Winter Garden gallery, featuring terracotta sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

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    A view of the new Renzo Piano addition addition with the north Winter Garden gallery at night.

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    A view of the new Renzo Piano addition addition at night.

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