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Museum Education Heads Back to School
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.
Making History
One of the great things about working at The Huntington is that we're surrounded by all this cool stuff: on any one day, we can walk outside and see roses, orchids, cycads, bonsai, penjing and puyas.
Getting to Know Jane Austen Better
Few people can make literature jump off the page like Kevin Gilmartin. Professor of English and 2015 recipient of the Richard Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Caltech, he has taught at The Huntington's neighbor institution for 24 years.
"The Last Gleanings" of Jules Breton
The orange glow of the setting sun washes over the low-lying clouds and almost matches the rosy cheeks of the two young women in the foreground
The Burning of the Old South Church
Rising class divisions. Economic uncertainty. Anti-immigrant fervor. It was July 6, 1854.
Teachers Color the Summer Yellow
During their summer break, 30 selected teachers participated in the first Huntington Voices teacher institute, spending a week on site to learn from Education staff and others how to use The Huntington's collections to strengthen their student's voices through writing, spoken language, performance, and visual and media arts.
"Value Added"
Big yellow buses will start rolling through The Huntington's gates this week as the school tour season gets under way. When students disembark for a morning of discovery, a group of highly trained volunteers will be ready and waiting.
Family Archive Related to Jane Austen
In 1736, just four days before Christmas, 5-year-old Mary “Molly” Leigh wrote a formal letter to her father, Theophilus Leigh, Master of Balliol College, Oxford. The first page of the letter is ruled with straight lines to serve as guides for the novice hand, but the second page lacks them. Molly’s carefully shaped letters gently brush the lines in some places and float just above them in others, giving a subtle movement to her focused penmanship.
Master Gardeners at the Ranch
The master gardeners who volunteer each Saturday at the Huntington Ranch Garden Open House are the perfect hosts for this one-of-a-kind garden experience...
A Raven Named Sir Nevermore?
I remember the moment when I fell in love with the Huntington Library. I was researching 19th-century agriculture and, in particular, the use of guano—the droppings of cormorants, boobies, and pelicans on the Chincha Islands off the coast of Peru.
“This reading of Books is a pernicious thing”
In 1984, The Huntington organized and hosted the first of a series of meetings of local feminists. As a brochure in the Library’s archives explains, these seminars, scheduled to take place five times a year, aimed to “further academic research on material by and about women
Conservatory Collaboration: Teamwork Addresses Slug Situation
The Huntington’s Botanical staff members routinely collaborate with other institutions to tackle conservation challenges. Most of the time, these are carefully planned projects: propagating rare and endangered species, making gardens more resilient to the changing climate, and teaching cryopreservation or culturing plant tissue. But sometimes, the unexpected happens.