Exhibits

‘Fog everywhere’ writes Dickens in his opening passage to Bleak House, describing a common experience for many Victorian Londoners.
It is no surprise that horses have starred in children’s books for generations.
The exhibition considers how landscape, weather and the natural world play an important role in the lives and work of the Brontës.
Claire A. Nivola introduces young readers to inspiring women in history.
The giving and receiving of gifts is fundamental to human societies.
Before the advent of landscape as an independent genre in European art (a development usually placed in the 1600s), depictions of the natural world appeared on the borders of manuscripts and as the
Mystical musicians, eccentric scientists, voyagers in curious contraptions—Remedios Varo (1908–1963) mixed notions from disparate fields of knowledge to create modern paintings suffused with materi
Exhibit celebrates 250th anniversary of the first book of African American poetry and explores its author’s long legacy.
An exhibition that reveals the ways that design influenced the making, reading, and interpretation of medieval books.
This exhibition contains some nudity and sexually explicit content. Viewer discretion is advised.