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Dumbarton Oaks Launches Third Urban Landscape Humanities Initiative

Mellon Foundation has renewed the grant on Democracy, Race, and Difference for five-years.

"Lasting Impressions" Reveals Stories and Histories from the Byzantine Empire

Drawn from the world’s largest collection of Byzantine seals, this exhibition takes viewers on a journey into the medieval world

Postponement of 2020–2021 Music at Dumbarton Oaks Concert Series

April 30, 2020

Largest-Ever Exhibition of Rare Textile Collection Reimagines Life in a Lost World

Ornament: Fragments of Byzantine Fashion rethinks ancient bodies and modern aesthetics

Thaisa Way Named Dumbarton Oaks Program Director in Garden and Landscape Studies

Dumbarton Oaks has appointed Thaisa Way as the Program Director in Garden and Landscape Studies.

Announcing the Music at Dumbarton Oaks 2018-2019 Concert Season

The annual Music at Dumbarton Oaks concert series returns this fall with an impressive season of performances.

Dumbarton Oaks Museum Acquires Rare Greek Manuscript

Dumbarton Oaks, with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation, has acquired an early tenth century Greek manuscript of historic and scholarly significance

Jan Ziolkowski Elected to the American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting ...

Announcing the 2023-24 Fellows Cohort at Dumbarton Oaks

Welcoming researchers to the “Home of the Humanities”

Dumbarton Oaks becomes Affiliate Member of Biodiversity Heritage Library

Inspiring discovery and scholarship through free access to biodiversity knowledge