How do you pile too much stuff on a site that's too small and still get a great building from a famous architect? Answer: You don't.

The famous architect is the Italian Renzo Piano, long regarded one of the world's best. The building is what Harvard calls the Harvard Art Museums. It's an amalgam of three museums, the Fogg, the Sackler, and the Busch-Reisinger. But it's one single building now, and the plural name is awkward. In the tradition of MoMA in New York and PEM in Salem, we'll just call it HAM. It opens to the public Sunday.

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