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How do images, objects, museums, and monuments shape our history and contemporary experience? Learn the history and dynamics of art: how to look and how to write critically about visual and material culture, past and present.

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Students, visitors and staff attend the opening reception at the Tufts University Art Gallery.

Visual Resources Collection

The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) located in the Fine Arts House supports the pedagogical needs of our faculty, students, and staff.

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Biblical Stories, South Facade, Church of Aghtamar, 915 CE

Department Announcements

Graduate Program Open House on November 18, 2024, 2:00-4:00pm - register here

Beginning Fall 2024 FAH is now HAA! All of our Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture courses count for the arts distribution credit, so when searching for courses in SIS scroll on down to HAA.

Please visit our Lecture Series page to browse and download information about the latest lectures.

For Transfer of Credit questions, please reach out to our Department Representatives or visit the Student Resources page for checklists, forms, and more.

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BA in History of Art and Architecture BA in Architectural Studies Joint BSE in Architectural Studies Minor in History of Art and Architecture Minor in Architectural Studies Minor in Museums, Memory, and Heritage Minor in Studio Art MA in Art History MA in Art History and Museum Studies

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Library of Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, 1838-1850, photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen

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Department of the History of Art and Architecture News

Shining a Light on U.S. Latinx Art and Artists

Professor Adriana Zavala co-founded an organization to bring visibility to often-overlooked artists of Latin American and Caribbean ancestry in the U.S.

Elizabeth Semmelhack, AG93, director and senior curator at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto

This Museum Director Focuses Solely on Shoes

Elizabeth Semmelhack, MA in Art History ’93, is the director and senior curator at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.

The Gates, Central Park, New York. Installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 2005. Photo from Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress

Tufts Museum Studies Blog

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A GIF of an image of apostles emerging from whitewash. With help from software, a Tufts art history professor uncovers long-unseen fresco paintings in thousand-year old Armenian churches

The Case of the Reappearing Art

With help from software, a Tufts art history professor uncovers long-unseen fresco paintings in thousand-year-old Armenian churches.

Angkor Wat multiple-layered ancient building in Cambodia. From world heritage sites to our local communities, the meaning of heritage is open to interpretation, says a Tufts art history professor

Who Owns Our Cultural Heritage?

From world heritage sites to our local communities, the meaning of heritage is open to interpretation, says a Tufts art history professor.

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