Harvard Art Museums

Architect: Renzo Piano
Year: 1895
City: Boston, MA

The Harvard Art Museums fold three separate institutions into one Harvard University building: the Fogg Museum, dating to 1895, the Busch-Reisinger Museum from 1903, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum from 1985. They were merged administratively in 1983 and renovated under Renzo Piano, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. The combined collection runs to roughly 250,000 objects across 204,000 square feet of building space.

the building

Three collections, one roof. Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler each began as independent museums with their own founding dates before being brought together as the Harvard University Art Museums in 1983; the word 'University' was later dropped from the name in 2008. About 43,000 of the building's 204,000 square feet are given over to public exhibition space.

the architect

Renzo Piano, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, is credited with the museum's design and renovation, unifying the three formerly separate Harvard collections under one building.

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nearby

Fogg Museum 100 ft · Colonial Revival · 1896
Sever Hall 210 ft · Romanesque Revival
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts 380 ft · Brutalism
Harvard Union 0.1 mi · Colonial Revival
Memorial Hall 0.1 mi
Church of the New Jerusalem 0.2 mi · Gothic Revival · 1901

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