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Library

One of the world's great research libraries with 12 million items spanning the 11th to 21st centuries, with works on display in the Library exhibition halls

Art Museum

British, European, American, and Asian art including more than 45,000 world-renowned examples of decorative arts, paintings, prints and drawings, photography, and sculpture

Botanical Gardens

Encompassing approximately 130 acres, the Botanical Gardens contain more than a dozen spectacular themed gardens with some 83,000 living plants including rare and endangered species

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A Book Older than God: The Great Basin Bristlecone

The rings of bristlecone pines, the planet’s longest-living trees, chronicle past details about changes in the climate and other environmental variations of global significance. The Huntington’s Daniel Lewis explores this topic and more in his book Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future.

Why It Matters Karen Lawrence and Carol Christ

Why It Matters: Carol T. Christ in Conversation with Karen R. Lawrence

April 10, 7 p.m. - In this cross-disciplinary exploration of culture and history, Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence talks to Carol T. Christ, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, about leadership, social change, free speech, and literature.

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Eve Babitz, Collage Artist

Before Eve Babitz became a published writer, she was a visual artist, and her chosen medium was collage. Inspired by Joseph Cornell and Andy Warhol, she created the album cover art for Buffalo Springfield’s “Buffalo Springfield Again” and The Byrds’ “Untitled.”

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Now Blooming in the Gardens

Explore acres full of spectacular color and fragrance. Winter-flowering Magnolias, Camellias, and fruit trees—including flowering apricots and peaches—are in bloom now throughout the gardens.

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