Virtual Exhibitions

As part of an ongoing collaboration between the Higgins Museum and WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), students from WPI are producing a series of virtual exhibitions. These student-created exhibitions will greatly increase public access to the museum's holdings, and serve as launching points for further research. To visit the currently running exhibitions, click on the links below.

New Virtual Exhibitions

• Higgins Collection Online The culmination of multiyear project, this searchable database includes the entire Higgins collection, with images and information for over 4000 artifacts.

Prior Virtual Exhibitions

• The Techniques of Medieval Armored Combat This site offers a survey of the armored combat skills of the medieval knight, with footage of reconstructed techniques based on surviving treatises from the 1400s.

• Modeling the Joust A historical study of the joust with technical analysis of the physics involved.