Fogg Art Museum

Fogg Art Museum

      museum founded at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in 1895 as a study collection of Eastern and Western art from prehistory to the present, as well as an important art reference library of more than 150,000 volumes. The Fogg Museum is especially distinguished for its collection of drawings and prints.

      Its research fields include classical art, coins, conservation, drawings, Islāmic and Oriental art, photography, and prints. The Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard is a subsidiary.

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