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Map of Kings County, California, with an outline of Tulare Lake.
Event

The Other California: Land, Loss, Labor, Liberated Futures along Phantom Shores

Wed., Oct. 16, 2024

Join Alison Hirsch, associate professor at USC and the Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellow, who will explore the history and future of Tulare Lake, which reemerged after multiple atmospheric rivers hit California in March 2023.

Deep red blooming Corpse Flower.
Event

Now Blooming: Corpse Flower

July 10, 2024–July 31, 2024

Following on the stinky heels of Odora, the Corpse Flower Scentennial is getting ready to release its pungent scent. Both plants are on view now for a limited time in The Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science. Watch the livestream, check the growth progress chart, and plan your visit.

Lily blossom sprinkled with water droplets
Event

Now Blooming: Water Lilies and Lotus

June 15, 2024–July 31, 2024

Admire the colorful beauty of aquatic flowers in the Chinese Garden, Lily Ponds, and the North Vista and Celebration Garden fountains.

A yellow and pink graphic with a large tropical flower and a map with a white ship sailing from California to Hawaii.
Event

Sip of History: Tiki 101

Thu., May 16, 2024

Explore the history of libations and Western fantasies of faraway lands in this educational and hands-on mixology class.

An ink brush painting of a blooming plant with long leaves.
Exhibition

Paintings in Print: Studying Art in China

Oct. 7, 2023–May 27, 2024

Oct. 7, 2023–May 27, 2024 | This exhibition examines the ways painting manuals published in the 17th and 18th centuries used innovative printing methods to introduce the techniques, history, and appreciation of painting to widening audiences in early modern China.

Exhibition

Spirit and Essence, Line and Form: The Graphic Work of Henry Moore

June 16, 2018–Oct. 1, 2018

Approximately 25 works on paper by British sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986) representing the interrelationship of shape and mass, exploring the themes of creation, the body, life, and death. |

Sam Maloof in workshop
Exhibition

The House that Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945–1985

Sept. 4, 2011–Jan. 31, 2012

The furniture of midcentury craftsman Sam Maloof (1916–2009) and the art made by 35 members of his circle of friends is explored in the groundbreaking exhibition, "The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945–1985" in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery.

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Barbara and Kathy Fiscus. Barbara Fiscus Collection.
Frontiers

Kathy Fiscus and the Johnson Well

Mar. 17, 2021

William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and professor of history at USC, recently published Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation (Angel City Press, 2021), in which he tells the story of a groundbreaking live TV news broadcast of a rescue attempt in 1949 to save a little girl who had fallen down a deep well in San Marino

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Frontiers

Trees in a Time of Drought

Oct. 17, 2015

The Huntington serves as ground zero in a race to research, and ultimately kill, the pests that threaten Southern California's treesFour years of historic drought. Restricted water use. The Darth Vader of tree pests and assorted other destructive bugs, diseases, fungi, and root rot.

Plant on Microscope
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A Garden in Deep Freeze

May 12, 2016

The Huntington's cryopreservation program strives to conserve endangered plantsThe caretakers of the tender succulents in the Desert Garden may cringe at news of a prolonged cold snap, but Raquel Folgado

Linda Chiavaroli

Chiavaroli …

Corpse Flower
Frontiers

The Secret Life of Stinky

May 15, 2015

There's more to the corpse flower than its giant bloomBehind the scenes at The Huntington, in a quiet greenhouse tucked away from public view, something big is brewing. 

Documents of the Walking Purchase and the Councils of Easton, 75 manuscripts, including two manuscript maps, 1685–1762. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
News

News Release - The Huntington Acquires Archive Documenting a Notorious Colonial Plot to Defraud Native Americans of Ancestral Land in Pennsylvania

Feb. 6, 2020

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired a recently discovered archive documenting an 18th-century investigation into a land deal—the so-called Walking Purchase—that defrauded the Lenni Lenape

2015–16 Awarded Fellowships

The Huntington annually welcomes long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive peer-review process. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.

Olive penjing against a white wall.

Penjing

“The goal is to create the sense of a tree as though you took it out of nature” —Che Zhao Sheng

Cover of A Place at the Nayarit
Frontiers

A Place at the Nayarit

May 16, 2022

Natalia Molina grew up in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park and spent evenings at the Mexican restaurant her mother owned, the Nayarit, a local landmark that her grandmother founded in 1951.

2013–14 Awarded Fellowships

Long-Term Awards R. STANTON AVERY DISTINGUISHED FELLOW Theresa Kelley, Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Persimmon and tangerines
News

Press Release - Rare Chinese Woodblock Prints to go on View in Major International Loan Exhibition

Jun. 29, 2016

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will present a major international loan exhibition exploring the art, craft, and cultural significance of Chinese woodblock prints made during their golden age, with works made from the late 16th century through the 19th century.

2014–15 Awarded Fellowships

The Huntington annually welcomes long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive peer-review process. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.

A coloring page of a vertical rectangle with different size rectangles and triangles inside.

Old Beauty

Coloring Page

Darwin Family
News

News Release - The Huntington Acquires Unique Darwin Photo Album

Feb. 6, 2018

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today that it has acquired a unique photograph album, containing 19 prints, that offers a tantalizing glimpse into the intimate family circle of renowned scientist Charles Darwin (1809-1882).

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Videos and Recorded Programs

Hear and Now at The Huntington

Mar. 31, 2021

Hear and Now is a new podcast that connects the incomparable library, art, and botanical collections at The Huntington with the wider world.

Archives of Thomas T. Eckert
News

News Release - Huntington Acquires Collection of Lincoln Telegrams Thought Destroyed

Jan. 25, 2012

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has acquired an extensive and extraordinarily rare collection of Civil War telegraph messages, including a number of coded communiqués between Abraham Lincoln and officers of the Union Army.