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One of the world's great research libraries with 12 million items spanning the 11th to 21st centuries, with works on display in the Library exhibition halls

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Art Museum

British, European, American, and Asian art including more than 45,000 world-renowned examples of decorative arts, paintings, prints and drawings, photography, and sculpture

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Botanical Gardens

Encompassing approximately 130 acres, the Botanical Gardens contain more than a dozen spectacular themed gardens with some 83,000 living plants including rare and endangered species

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  • Detail view of an immersive art installation with a wooden canoe and various found objects.
    Exhibition
    Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
    Nov. 11, 2023–Nov. 30, 2027
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  • Rose 'Easy Does It'
    Event
    Now Blooming: Roses
    April 15, 2024–Nov. 30, 2024
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  • A large sculpture in a garden, created with charred wood and ceramics.
    Exhibition
    Mineo Mizuno: Homage to Nature
    May 25, 2024–May 25, 2029
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  • A black and white image of a smoke cloud rising from the ground with a person walking away.
    Exhibition
    Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis
    Sept. 14, 2024–Jan. 6, 2025
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  • A green image with an illustration of a fruit tree in a garden.
    Exhibition
    奪天工 Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China
    Sept. 14, 2024–Jan. 6, 2025
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  • An abstract orb filled with color against a black background.
    Event
    Strange Science: Out of Time
    Fri., Oct. 25, 2024
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  • An abstract orb filled with color against a black background.
    Event
    Strange Science: Out of Time
    Sat., Oct. 26, 2024
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  • A person wearing an "Ask Me" badge talks to another person in front of a large hanging tapestry.
    Event
    Gallery Drop-In Talks: “Storm Cloud”
    Sun., Oct. 27, 2024
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  • A super bloom of red roses in a rose garden.
    Event
    Music in the Rose Garden
    Mon., Oct. 28, 2024
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  • A stylized photo of a musician playing a piano.
    Event
    Camerata Pacifica: Rachmaninoff & Schoenberg
    Tue., Oct. 29, 2024
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A drawing of ichthyosaurs listening to a lecture.

This comedic scene lampoons geologist Charles Lyell’s hypothesis that time on Earth might be cyclical and that long-extinct species might return after humans have all died out. Sir Henry de la Bèche, Ichthyosaurs attending a lecture on fossilised human remains, 1830, lithograph after Sir Henry de la Bèche’s drawing. | The Wellcome Collection.

A New Human Epoch

In conjunction with the “Storm Cloud” exhibition, The Huntington is hosting the research conference “Storm Cloud: Environment, Empire, and the Arts in the Industrial Age.” Scholars from a range of disciplines will examine how 19th-century artists and writers engaged with science and confronted the changes caused by the Industrial Revolution.

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This comedic scene lampoons geologist Charles Lyell’s hypothesis that time on Earth might be cyclical and that long-extinct species might return after humans have all died out. Sir Henry de la Bèche, Ichthyosaurs attending a lecture on fossilised human remains, 1830, lithograph after Sir Henry de la Bèche’s drawing. | The Wellcome Collection.

Painting of a person walking through a field of wheat with oak trees on a nearby hill.

Edward Mitchell Bannister, Untitled (Walking Through a Field) [detail], ca. 1870s, oil on canvas, 22 x 42 1/4 in. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

Restoring Edward Mitchell Bannister’s Rightful Place in Art History

In 1876, Edward Mitchell Bannister became the first African American artist to win a national award. The Huntington’s Lauren Cross writes about what motivated him, whom he credited for his success, and how he shifted from being a portraitist to a landscape artist.

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Edward Mitchell Bannister, Untitled (Walking Through a Field) [detail], ca. 1870s, oil on canvas, 22 x 42 1/4 in. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

A person with wavy, brown shoulder-length hair stands in front of an abstract painting of a landscape with blue details.

Mercedes Dorame. Photo by Cassia Davis. | © J. Paul Getty Trust 2023.

Mercedes Dorame: Everywhere Is West

In the spring of 2022, Tongva photographer Mercedes Dorame peered down at a tide pool on Santa Cruz Island, roughly 25 miles off the coast of California. Focusing her camera, she captured an image that provides a window into worlds.

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Mercedes Dorame. Photo by Cassia Davis. | © J. Paul Getty Trust 2023.

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