Harvard Art Museums

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Harvard Art Museums
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place Cambridge, Massachusetts
opening 1983
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New building by Renzo Piano and entrance to the Harvard Art Museums

The Harvard Art Museums (German: Harvard Art Museums ) belong to Harvard University and consist of three museums: the Fogg Museum (founded 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (founded 1903) and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (founded 1985), as well four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis' ( English Archaeological Exploration of Sardis , founded 1958), the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art ( English Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art , founded 2002), the Harvard Art Museum archives ( English Harvard Art Museums Archives ) and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies ( English Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies , founded 1928). The three museums that make up the Harvard Art Museums were originally integrated into a joint institute called Harvard University Art Museums in 1983 . The word "University" was removed from the name in 2008.

The collection contains around 250,000 works of art from Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia and from ancient times to the present day.

Among other things, the museum houses the painting The Red Horses by Franz Marc , which was confiscated from the Folkwang Museum in Essen in 1937.

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