Harvard Art Museum Report

Scope of the Museum Collection  Sandro  With its opening in 1895, the Fogg Museum is the oldest Harvard Museum. Its opening was made possible by a gift of 200000 dollars by Mrs Fogg and of a few European and American paintings collected by the couple during their travels. The building originally housed the Harvard Center for Fine Arts as well as 'secondary evidence', i.e. plaster casts, as well as the aforementioned paintings. They were used to serve the faculty and students of Harvard, rather than to rival the Boston MFA. The latter option was also excluded because of the museum's finances at the time, with its budget roughly being 10% of the annual expense used for maintaining the Boston MFA.  Since this period, the Fogg Museum has witnessed a dramatic increase of its collections, which are now dedicated to Western Art over a large timeframe. T he Busch-Reisinger museum was founded in 1901 as the Germanic Museum. Its opening was linked to the exchanges between Harvard a...

  Harvard Art Museums' Names + Origins Zak Kish-DeGiulio Harvard Art Museums Timeline Research: Sandro Capo Chichi Design: Kéla Jackson Harvard Art Museums  Mission + Oversight Kéla Jackson + Sandro Capo Chichi " The Harvard Art Museums—the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum—advance knowledge about and appreciation of art and art museums. The museums are committed to preserving, documenting, presenting, interpreting, and strengthening the collections and resources in their care." " Through research, teaching, professional training, and public education, the museums strive to advance the understanding and appreciation of art. Programs encourage close looking at original works of art, collaboration with campus and community partners, and the production of new scholarship." The Harvard Art Museums, originally the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur Sackler Museum, demonstrate a portion of Harvard's expa...