Blog post #9

Cambridge is full of many architectural significant buildings in literature, music, performance arts, and film. Below is a tour of these significant buildings.

1.) The Harvard art museums are the oldest museums at Harvard. It is home to many European and American art from the middle ages to present day. The first of the three here is the Fogg museum. The Fogg museum is opened in 1895 and was designed by architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot. This joint teaching facility and art museum was the first purpose built structure made for the specialized training of art scholars in North America.

2.) The next Harvard museum Busch-Reisinger Museum. This museum was created in 1901 and is dedicated to the study of all modes and periods of art from central and northern Europe, with extra emphasis on Germanic art. This museum holds noteworthy contemporary and postwar art from the German-speaking areas of Europe.

Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard U, Cambridge MA

3.) The next museum at Harvard is the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. This museum taught the first courses of Asain art at Harvard and the first at any American College. This museum opened in 1985 and was designed by James Sterling.

4.) This building is the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. This building was built 1963 by Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter. This five level building is used as a working space for painters, photographers, drawers, and mixed media and sculptors.

5.) The Farkas Hall at Harvard was acquired in 2002 and then renovated in 2007. This hall is a 274 seat hall and has three alternative names: New College Theatre, Hasty Pudding Club, and 10-12 Holyoke street.

View of the seats in Farkas Hall

6.) This building is the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T) (pretty cool huh!). A.R.T was founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein and is the leading force in American theatre due to its groundbreaking work that is driven by passionate inquiry and risk-taking.

The American Repertory Theater and Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

7.) This building is called Paine Concert Hall. This hall was named after Harvard's first professor of music. This hall is located on the second flood of the Fanny Peabody Mason Music building at Harvard and is used by many students studying or practicing music at Harvard.

Music Building Paine Hall

8.) This building is the Harvard Museum of Natural History. This museum is home to three different research museums: The Harvard University Herbaria, Mineralogical and Geological Museum, and Museum of Comparative Zoology. This museum was established in 1998 and is visited by a large amount of tourists and students each day.

Harvard Museum of Natural History