Spotlight Tour: Birdwatching in the Museums, with Emily Feng ’25

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Harvard Art Museums

Free

In this photomontage, a smiling young woman, wearing a brown long-sleeve shirt and dark pants, sits in a red armchair in a library, gesturing toward an enlarged coin that appears to float overhead.

Emily Feng will invite you to search for images of birds in the museums’ galleries.

No application or registration needed.

Cost

This Event is free!

Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the tour. Tours are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.

Location

  • In-person only.

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Neighborhood

Neighborhood 9

Dates and Times

Saturday, February 8 11AM – 11:50AM

Additional information

On this tour, Emily Feng ’25 will guide you in a search for images of birds in the museums’ galleries and will talk about the joy that comes from birdwatching. She will also reflect on how artists have represented birds across various cultures and eras. The works on the tour will include a selection of ancient Greek coins featuring birds, the painting Two Owls at Sunset (c. 1860), temporarily on loan to us from the Terra Foundation for American Art, and Lyonel Feininger’s Bird Cloud (1926).

Free

In this photomontage, a smiling young woman, wearing a brown long-sleeve shirt and dark pants, sits in a red armchair in a library, gesturing toward an enlarged coin that appears to float overhead.

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Last updated January 17, 2025.