Harvard Art Museums closing to public amid COVID-19 spread
Harvard University’s network of museums is temporarily closing to the public beginning March 13 in an effort to reduce the number of people on campus and slow opportunities for the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. The museums to close include the Harvard Art Museums (the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums); Harvard Museums of Science and Culture (Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, and the Harvard Semitic Museum); the Fisher Museum at Harvard Forest; Arnold Arboretum, and others. The closing is in line with the closing of many other Boston-area museums. It comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Massachusetts continues to rise, with state officials putting the latest number at 108. The move also follows the closing of other prominent museums around the country, most notably New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Harvard Art Museums announced the closing...