The Harvard Art Museums will likely stay closed for âmost or allâ of the spring semester, Museums Director Martha Tedeschi wrote in an email to the museumâs supporters Friday.
Her email comes during a nationwide surge in Covid-19 cases and a spike in the Boston area.
âWeâre in a big spike, and now thereâs a new strain of Covid, which is highly contagious â and so Harvard, obviously, is making very careful decisions,â Tedeschi said in an interview Saturday.
âOur continued collaboration and planning with university leadership to keep students, campus, and community safe will help us determine next steps over the course of this year,â she wrote in the email.