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Harvard museum marking 150 years with new exhibit

News Desk (Associated Press)

Cambridge

Sun, April 23, 2017 Published on Apr. 22, 2017 Published on 2017-04-22T21:36:26+07:00

FILE - In this Oct. 22, 1962, file photo, President John F. Kennedy makes a national television speech from Washington. Harvard University is honoring one of its most famous graduates, John F. Kennedy, with a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the slain president’s birth. Harvard hosts the John F. Kennedy Centennial Symposium on Thursday, April 20, 2017. Kennedy was born May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Mass. (AP/File)

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Harvard University museum is marking its 150th anniversary with a new exhibit showcasing its role developing the study of anthropology.

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology on Saturday is opening "All the World is Here," a renovated exhibition gallery featuring more than 600 objects from Asia, Oceania and the Americas. Many of the items are being displayed for the first time.

The exhibit is meant to tell the story of the museum's earliest collections and the role its second director, Frederic Putnam, played in developing the academic discipline. The museum is one of the world's oldest museums dedicated to anthropology.

Among the items being featured are the dog sledge of Arctic explorer Robert Peary, the collections of 18th-century Boston ship traders and art from Ohio's ancient burial mounds.