Manifest: Thirteen Colonies
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Harvard Museums of Science & Culture and Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
In this exhibition, join photographer Wendel White on a tour across the original thirteen American colonies as he captures objects held in collections, unpacking the "forensic evidence of Black life.”
Sign-up Information
Ages: Adults.
No application or registration needed.
Cost
Adults: $15.00, Seniors (65+): $13.00, Harvard ID holders: Free, Non-Harvard students with I.D.: $10.00, Youth ages 3–18: $10.00, Youth under 3: Free, Members: Free
Location
- In-person only.
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
Dates and Times
This is an ongoing program.
This exhibit runs for approximately 11 months beginning in May 2024. The Peabody Museum is open daily from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. We are closed on the following days:
- Wednesday, November 27, 2024 (day before Thanksgiving)
- Thursday, November 28, 2024 (Thanksgiving Day)
- Saturday, December 21, 2024
- Sunday, December 22, 2024
- Monday, December 23, 2024
- Tuesday, December 24, 2024 (Christmas Eve)
- Wednesday, December 25, 2024 (Christmas)
- Wednesday, January 1, 2025 (New Year's Day)
Additional information
A midcentury voting machine. A pair of baby dolls from a famed science experiment. A lock of hair from the most photographed American of his day: Frederick Douglass. All were selected and photographed in natural light by Wendel A. White, the 2021 recipient of the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography. White photographed African-American materials housed in private and public collections throughout the thirteen original United States colonies and Washington, D.C. His subjects are rare, singular objects and everyday material such as diaries, documents, photographs, and souvenirs—what he calls “the forensic evidence of Black life and events in the United States.”
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Last updated October 15, 2024.
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