News
News Release - Expanded Chinese Garden at The Huntington to Open Oct. 9
Thu., Sept. 3, 2020
After a nearly five-month postponement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens will open the outdoor areas of the highly anticipated expansion of its renowned Chinese Garden on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020
Education
Museum Education Heads Back to School
Wed., Sept. 2, 2020 | Lisa Blackburn
Notebook paper, No. 2 pencils, colorful new backpacks. Hand sanitizer? Some back-to-school essentials never change, but the COVID-19 pandemic has turned an annual rite on its ear.
Lecture
Curatorial Dialogues: Black Ship Scrolls and Mary Queen of Scots’ Prayer Book
Tue., Sept. 1, 2020
Two remarkable—and remarkably different—manuscripts from the Library's collections are the focus of this presentation and conversation with Li Wei Yang, Curator of Pacific Rim Collections, and Vanessa Wilkie, William A. Moffett Curator of Medieval Manuscripts and British History.
Lecture
President's Series: Inspired by Octavia E. Butler - A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: Lynell George in conversation with William Deverell and Karla Nielsen
Wed., Aug. 26, 2020
Writer Lynell George discusses her forthcoming book, A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E.
Lecture
From Parchment to Pixel: Conservation and Digitization of Illuminated Manuscripts
Wed., Aug. 19, 2020
Three panelists follow one of The Huntington's most studied manuscripts as it travels from curator to conservator to digitization team, who all work together to transform a 16th-century manuscript into a 21st-century digital tool.
News
News Release - As Part of Its Centennial Celebration, The Huntington Seeds a New Fellowship in Honor of Octavia E. Butler
Wed., Aug. 19, 2020
As part of its Centennial Celebration, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has announced the creation of a one-year fellowship for the study of Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006)
Library
California Gold Rush Landscapes
Wed., Aug. 19, 2020
In January of 1851, John R. Fitch, a gold prospector, penned these words to his brother: "The wear and tear of the mines is very great."
Library
Charles Bukowski at 100
Wed., Aug. 12, 2020 | Natalie Russell
Charles Bukowski (1920–94) would have turned 100 on August 16. The so-called "poet laureate of Los Angeles low-life" had a reputation
Library
Interpreting the Music of Harold Bruce Forsythe
Wed., Aug. 5, 2020 | Karla Ann Merino Nielsen
Most researchers using our literary collections at The Huntington are writing biographies or academic articles. But we also work with publishers and artists
Botanical
Take A Walk Among the Cycads
Wed., July 29, 2020 | Usha Lee McFarling
If you're returning to The Huntington soon, one of the places you may want to visit is the cycad walk.
Botanical
Spines, Thorns, and Prickles
Wed., July 22, 2020 | Sean C. Lahmeyer
When you walk among the living plant collections at The Huntington, especially in the Desert Garden, you may notice that many of the plants have spines.
Accounting for Freedom
Mon., July 20, 2020 | Usha Lee McFarling
Curator Olga Tsapina discusses the account book of an Underground Railroad operatorThe Huntington is home to extensive collections documenting the history of slavery and abolition in the United States and the Atlantic World.