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Rainy-Day PickHarvard Film Archive
Under $25Catch a classic, foreign or experimental film on 35mm or 16mm in a 188-seat cinema in Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
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Harvard Art Museums
Harvard's art museum near Harvard Square, with more than 50 galleries across three floors around a skylit courtyard.
32 Quincy St · Cambridge, MA
About Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums bring together the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger and the Arthur M. Sackler museums under one roof, a building renovated by Renzo Piano and reopened in 2014. You enter through the Calderwood Courtyard and explore more than 50 galleries across three floors. The collection holds about 250,000 objects, including a major Bauhaus collection at the Busch-Reisinger and archaic Chinese jades from the Sackler. A cafe and museum shop sit off the courtyard.
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