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Now Blooming: Water Lilies and Lotus
Admire the colorful beauty of aquatic flowers in the Chinese Garden, Lily Ponds, and the North Vista and Celebration Garden fountains.
Sip of History: Tiki 101
Explore the history of libations and Western fantasies of faraway lands in this educational and hands-on mixology class.
Paintings in Print: Studying Art in China
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.
Spirit and Essence, Line and Form: The Graphic Work of Henry Moore
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. |
Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection
Few things provide a clearer picture of an ancient civilization than the study of its material culture: the objects a society created, used, and valued. For certain scholars of Chinese culture, the broad sweep of history can be found reflected in a particularly beautiful art form: exquisitely crafted mirrors made of bronze.
2019-20 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.
News Release – New Exhibition Will Explore Art Education in Early Modern China
Oct. 7, 2023–May 27, 2024 | A new exhibition will provide visitors with the opportunity to gain insight into early art education in China through painting manuals originally published in the 17th and 18th centuries.
2023-24 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.
Botanical Gardens
Encompassing about 130 acres, the Botanical Gardens feature living collections in 16 stunning themed gardens with more than 83,000 living plants, including rare and endangered species, and a laboratory for botanical conservati
Themed Gardens
The Huntington is home to 16 spectacular themed gardens spread across 120 acres.
Garden Sculptures & Fountains
In 1910, Henry E. Huntington began acquiring a large collection of outdoor sculptures, personally deciding on the exact location for each piece. Love is a common theme, most of which dates from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, although some are the works of 20th-century American artists.
Helpful Info, Events, and Activities for Families
There's so much for families to discover together! The Huntington is a perfect place to experience first-hand the wonders of the living world.
Trees in a Time of Drought
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.
Kathy Fiscus and the Johnson Well
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
A Garden in Deep Freeze
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
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The Secret Life of Stinky
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.
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.
Penjing
“The goal is to create the sense of a tree as though you took it out of nature” —Che Zhao Sheng
Old Beauty
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A Place at the Nayarit
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.
News Release - Huntington Acquires Collection of Lincoln Telegrams Thought Destroyed
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.
Press Release - Rare Chinese Woodblock Prints to go on View in Major International Loan Exhibition
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.
2017-18 Long-Term Fellows
R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow in the Humanities