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08/28/2026

How fast would you be able to type on a typewriter containing over 2,500 characters? 🫨 Find out with curator Li Wei!

08/26/2026

A vibrant rose named after a vibrant artist and humanitarian whose impact spans generations. 🌹🦋 In honor of the extraordinary life and legacy of Dolly Parton, we're revisiting this video with curator Tom as he shares the story behind the Dolly Parton rose.

We might be sweating through this heat, but our Desert Garden is thriving! 🥵🏜️
08/25/2026

We might be sweating through this heat, but our Desert Garden is thriving! 🥵🏜️

08/24/2026

While you may know our Library for housing books and paper objects, we have a few objects in our collections that might surprise you. 🫢🔪 This , take a look at this 19th-century knife used in the attempted murder of Secretary of State William H. Seward.

Your zodiac sign, your vintage bathroom 🛁🚿 Which one's your favorite?These photographs come from our Maynard L. Parker c...
08/21/2026

Your zodiac sign, your vintage bathroom 🛁🚿 Which one's your favorite?

These photographs come from our Maynard L. Parker collection, which houses over 50,000 images, primarily shot by Maynard Parker, one of postwar America’s most sought-after architectural photographers. Explore thousands of vintage home design photographs from the collection: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5

08/20/2026

Can you guess how many characters are used in this Chinese typewriter from 1938? 🤔📄 Take a look at this vintage typewriter with curator Li Wei and learn how typists of the era would have used it.

Ever wonder why a summer sunset can make the sky look like a painting? 🌅🎨More than 200 years ago, British artist and dra...
08/19/2026

Ever wonder why a summer sunset can make the sky look like a painting? 🌅🎨

More than 200 years ago, British artist and drawing teacher Mary Gartside was exploring how color, light and shade work together. In 1805, she published "An Essay on Light and Shade, on Colours, and on Composition in General," a rare work that paired theories of color with vivid watercolor illustrations.

Gartside was one of the few women of her era to publish theoretical work on color. Her innovative "color ball" offered a new way to visualize relationships between hues, while her work encouraged artists to look closely at the colors and effects of light around them.

Swipe to see pages from this work in The Huntington’s collections. 🎨

08/18/2026

Take a close look at these desert images. What do you see hidden in plain sight? 📸🏜️ From 2006 to 2007, groundbreaking photographer Laura Aguilar made various trips to Joshua Tree to capture what would become her “Grounded” series: a group of n**e self-portraits taken against the rugged, desert landscape. Learn more about this series and Aguilar's legacy with curator Angélica.

This rotation of Aguilar's images is part of the exhibition “Laura Aguilar: Body and Landscape” and is on view in the Scott Galleries of American Art through Sept. 7.

Correction: "Grounded" was the last series of n**e self-portraits in nature completed by Aguilar, while her "Toys" series was the last she worked on before her passing in 2018.

08/15/2026

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, and groundbreaking photographer Laura Aguilar had a lot to say. 📸 Through self-portraiture within the natural environments of Southern California and the Southwest, Aguilar reframes the Western landscape as a site of personal power, resilience, and reclamation.

Learn more about her work with curator Angélica and view a selection of Aguilar's images in the exhibition, “Laura Aguilar: Body and Landscape,” on view in the Scott Galleries of American Art through Sept. 7.

08/13/2026

sweltering heat got you feeling like a turtle? 🐢💚 Learn a few tips from our resident garden reptiles on how to survive the summer.

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