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Spotlight Tour: Thresholds, with Jane Lilly ’27 1
Spotlight Tour: Thresholds, with Jane Lilly ’27 2
Spotlight Tour: Thresholds, with Jane Lilly ’27 3
Walking Tour

Spotlight Tour: Thresholds, with Jane Lilly ’27

October 11 at 2pm

At Harvard Art Museums

Mid-Cambridge, Cambridge

🎟️Space is limited, check in early at Visitor Services
🧒Kids' scavenger hunt keeps little ones busy floor to floor
🔋Free phone charging station and bag check downstairs

See three artworks across 400 years and three continents through one theme: thresholds. Harvard undergrad Jane Lilly leads a free, conversational 45-minute tour from a 14th-century Moroccan lintel to Canaletto's Venice.

Student-led tour
Free admission
Themed art talk
Intimate group size

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