Items

• 
  2020-06-20

  Summer Solstice 2020 Virtual Celebration

  Video virtual celebration of the Summer Solstice hosted by the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. The video includes scientific and cultural presentations, as well as activities. Programming is drawn from the four museums that make up the Harvard Museums. As museums have been forced into online outreach because of the pandemic, they have had to change how they celebrate and commemorate important days and events.
• 
  2020-04-14

  Harvard Museums of Science and Culture Caption Challenge

  Post on the Twitter page of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture that asks users to comment "what does this painting say to you?" Asks social media users to engage with their recent exhibit "Face to Face: Portraits of Museum Animals" by Jana Matusz. The specific post deals with a painting of a lion cub, inspired by the lion cub that can be viewed in the Africa Gallery of the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Posts like this highlight how museums continue to interact with their audience, and build awareness around their current exhibitions. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417092351/https:/twitter.com/HarvardMuseum/status/1250050814930026503
• 
  2020-04-22

  HMSC Connects! Earth Day

  Webpage created by the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture to educate and inform the public about vital environmental issues on Earth Day. This resource emphasizes the difference between 2020's socially distanced Earth Day, and how the holiday has normally been seen as a time for people to celebrate their natural environment and continue protecting it. The webpage includes resources for activities as well as lesson plans produced by the Harvard Museums, Harvard University, and other organizations in the Greater Boston area. Resources like this highlight how museums and other cultural institutions sought to continue using public holidays as opportunities to educate, even as they were no longer able to host physical events in their own spaces. https://hmsc.harvard.edu/earth-day
• 
  2020-04-05

  Harvard Museums of Science and Culture Explorers Club

  An Instagram page created by the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture in 2020. This page's first post was from April 5th, during the pandemic. The page posts photos, offers activities during social distancing, and different ways to engage with science and other cultures in one's neighborhood or immediate surroundings. The page also promotes virtual events that are put on by the Harvard museums. This page highlights new approaches to engagement that museums have had to develop as they have been forced online, and how they're relating their collections and expertise to the current pandemic.