Name Change, Harvard Art Museum

The Harvard University Art Museums are no more. Instead, meet the Harvard Art Museum.

As the Harvard Crimson notes, the museum is clearly hoping folks won't shorten the name, adapting HUAM into HAM.

"The new name, selected because it better expresses the institution’s mission, grows out of an initiative to further unify and integrate the museum’s collections and programs," a press release states. "The Harvard Art Museum will maintain the identity of its three museums, the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, as well as its research centers, among them the Straus Center for Conservation."

“We have been operating as a single entity for over two decades, yet we have a name that does not connote unity,” said Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director. “Along with comprehensive academic and facilities planning, we also needed to evaluate how we could better present ourselves as a united organization with a common mission. Our new name and our new facilities will reflect an interdisciplinary, unified approach to research and teaching and will enable us to open our collections and our resources to more students, scholars, and visitors.”