#  The old, made new: Refurbished Semitic Museum celebrates... Harvard Gazette, 12/18/2014 

 





January 06, 2015

 

 

**The old, made new: Refurbished Semitic Museum celebrates the past while reorienting for the future**

The Harvard Semitic Museum opened at its Divinity Avenue location in 1903 on land bought for a dollar from a benefactor.  
  
The sturdy, granite-trimmed, brick building was at the edge of a Cambridge demi-wilderness called Norton Woods. It was next to a residence that has since been moved to Ware Street. Further down was a boardinghouse for immigrant Irishwomen, who cleaned and made beds in Harvard dormitories. [Read complete article.](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/12/the-old-made-new/)



 

 

 



 

 

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