Curator Lynette Roth provides an overview of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, unique among North American museums in its dedication to the art of German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Harvard Art Museums are comprised of three separate museums—the Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, and Arthur M. Sackler Museum—each with a different history, collection, guiding philosophy, and identity. The Harvard Art Museums’ recent renovation and expansion in 2014 builds on the legacies of these three museums and unites their remarkable collections under one roof for the first time. TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: + Harvard Art Museums—History and the Three Museums: https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/about/history-and-the-three-museums + Ernst Barlach, “Crippled Beggar,” 1930, sculpture, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, BR31.5: https://hvrd.art/o/221565 + Joseph Beuys, “Felt Suit,” 1970, multiple, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1995.231.A-B, © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn: https://hvrd.art/o/310851 + Rebecca Horn, “Flying Books Under Black Rain Painting,” 2014, sculpture, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2014.293, © Rebecca Horn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn: https://hvrd.art/o/350526 + László Moholy-Nagy, “Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator),” 1930, sculpture, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, BR56.5, © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn: https://hvrd.art/o/299819 + Unidentified Artist, “Altar of St. Anne,” 1516, sculpture, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, BR32.65.A-C: https://hvrd.art/o/327690 -- Music: "Insatiable Toad" by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Video: Danny Hoshino & John Neely. For questions related to permission for commercial use of this video, please contact the Department of Digital Imaging and Visual Resources at am_divr@harvard.edu.