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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

With summer in full swing, a few highlights from the past school year still linger in the minds of soon-to-be 8th graders from Eliot Middle School in Pasadena. Last fall, as 7th graders, they toured "Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World" in Dibner Hall

With the arrival of Independence Day weekend, The Huntington is counting down the days to the opening of expanded gallery space in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. Come July 19, you can visit five new rooms that will allow for the display of nearly 100 more works.

British author Hilary Mantel has been named Dame of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth's annual birthday honors, announced earlier this month. The Huntington, as home to her literary archive, celebrates and congratulates Dame Hilary.

"One man lives in the city, the other in the woods," writes Huntington Curator of Photographs Jennifer A. Watts about photographers Bruce Davidson and Paul Caponigro.

With its tidy beds of colorful flowers and leafy plants, the Herb Garden might not look like a classroom. But, in fact, that's precisely what it is. It's where school children discover where the minty flavor in their toothpaste comes from and where salsa gets its kick.

Ten years ago, on Father's Day weekend in 2004, the Helen and Peter Bing Children's Garden made its debut. As we mark this milestone anniversary, a look back at how the garden came into being seems fitting.

The book had a sheepskin cover, and mold was growing on the sheepskin. Robert Hooke, a pioneering microbiologist, slid the cover under one of the world's first microscopes. Mold, he discovered, consists of "nothing else but several kinds of small and variously figur'd Mushroms."