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Water Conservation
Increasing Efficiency
Explorers Camp
Huntington Explorers Camp is a weeklong morning program for kids ages 5–13.
Exhibiting Skills
During the first week of February, The Huntington hosted colleagues from public gardens around the country who had a common educational goal: getting more value from plants. Ten people spent a week in a workshop called "Exhibiting Skills,"
ORCHID COLLECTION | Orchids 101
Brandon Tam and Lance Birk know what it's like to drive the 101 Freeway with a truck full of orchids. Last summer, they helped move more than 6,000 orchids from the Santa Barbara home of the late S. Robert Weltz to the greenhouses of The Huntington.
Fellowships
The Huntington Library awards over 150 research fellowships annually.
References and Resources
What are the stories that we tell about ourselves as Americans? How did we become who we are? Through the process of storytelling and myth-making, Americans have long created an identity based on distinct principles and values that we share as a country. Many of the objects we keep or put on display communicate some of those stories. Sometimes we don’t stop to think about what those stories or objects might mean. How true are those stories and what impact do they have?
Hedi El Kholti
About the artist
Community Partnerships
More than 6,000 people engage with The Huntington’s collections each year through active community partnerships with organizations in Los Angeles and the surrounding area.
A Library of Last Resort
Henry Edwards Huntington was born on this day in 1850, which makes today Founder's Day at The Huntington. You can mark the occasion by downloading last week's Founder's Day talk by David Zeidberg, the Avery Director of the Library.
How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Did you join the millions of Americans who made New Year's resolutions a couple of weeks ago? If you're determined to travel more and get plenty of exercise in 2014, The Huntington has the perfect solution.
New Rooms with Views
This Saturday, visitors can wander for the first time through five new rooms in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. The new section, previously used for storage in the Lois and Robert F. Erburu Gallery, adds 5,400 square feet of gallery space to display The Huntington's growing collection
Abundant Harvest
A generous bequest from Long Beach art collector Victor Gail (1929–2014) has greatly enhanced The Huntington's American decorative arts collection while underwriting its care and interpretation...
A Vacation Destination for Scholars
When the halls of academe begin to empty for the summer, the corridors of The Huntington start filling up. University and college faculty members make up a large percentage of the Library's researchers, and when school lets out in June they put away their syllabi
When It Rains, It Pours
The fruits of a return trip to NamibiaThe Spring/Summer 2014 issue of Huntington Frontiers featured Huntington conservation technician Cody Howard's search for Ledebouria bulbs
FROM THE RANCH | Economical Container Gardening and the Salad Factory Experiment
Welcome to the first post on the salad factory, an experiment to see if in both quantitative and qualitative terms, container gardening is "worth it." It is an easy to set up, relatively inexpensive grid of plastic storage tubs
EXHIBITIONS | The World of John Frame
For months now, we have been looking forward to an unusual exhibition—a display of works created by the Southern California sculptor John Frame. For the better part of five years, Frame has been assembling a body of work that features, at its core, an eclectic cast of fully articulated characters.
Great Scott (Not!)
"Sir, I have very ungraciously left unacknowledged your present of the Landscape Illustrations of Waverly." So begins an undated letter by Sir Walter Scott to Mr. Charles Tilt, Bookseller. Scott probably wrote it in 1830, thanking Tilt for sending him a copy
The Huntington Commissions Artist Mineo Mizuno for Monumental Outdoor Sculpture
Mizuno's site-specific sculpture “Homage to Nature” debuts on May 25, 2024.
News Release - Monumental Site-Specific Installation by Contemporary Chinese Artist Tang Qingnian Will Go on View June 22
A special installation of a new work by visual artist Tang Qingnian 唐慶年 will to go on display in The Huntington's Chinese Garden on June 22, continuing through Sept. 23.
If Not Lawn, Then What?
California's punishing drought has produced one positive effect: local gardens have gained some freedom from the expectation of the classic green lawn. More and more gardeners are removing lawn in favor of landscapes that look good while using less water.
Top 10 Water-Wise Plants
You've heard the dire news about California's drought. And you've been thinking about swapping out your lawn for water-wise plants. But if you're used to traditional grass and ornamental plants, where do you begin?
Greene & Greene in Context
Some people may remember the exquisite furniture in The Huntington's permanent exhibition about Arts and Crafts masters Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene. The space was just reinstalled and the take-home message is clear
Celia Paul and the Brontës
Beautifully installed on the second floor of the Huntington Art Gallery, the "Celia Paul" exhibition invokes works by some of the 19th-century painters in The Huntington's permanent collection
Behind the Scenes with Sonya Levien
The life of Sonya Levien (1888–1960) reads like a rags-to-riches fairy tale. But it is also a story of fortitude, feminism, and the ability to balance personal, family, and financial ambitions.