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Across the Seas: Indian Ocean Textiles at Dumbarton Oaks
The 2023 Museum Graduate Study Day centered around research on Indian Ocean textiles.
A message regarding the war in Armenia
Welcoming Autumn and the Rhythms of Fellowship
From Thomas B.F. Cummins, Director of Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks becomes Affiliate Member of Biodiversity Heritage Library
Inspiring discovery and scholarship through free access to biodiversity knowledge
"Bastions of the Cross: Medieval Rock-Cut Cruciform Churches of Tigray, Ethiopia"
This landmark publication in the Dumbarton Oaks Studies series is the first monograph dedicated to the great cruciform churches of late-eleventh-century Tigray, Ethiopia: Abreha wa-Atsbeha, Wuqro Cherqos, and Mika’el Amba.
A New Translation from the Ex Horto Series
Ernst Kris’s "The Rustic Style" is made available in English for the first time in a masterly translation by Linda B. Parshall
"Reconsidering the Chavín Phenomenon ..." To Be Published
"Reconsidering the Chavín Phenomenon in the Twenty-First Century," edited by Richard L. Burger and Jason Nesbitt.
Dumbarton Oaks Again Welcomes Horizons Greater Washington
This summer, Dumbarton Oaks collaborated with education nonprofit Horizons Greater Washington to welcome a group of rising sixth graders to the museum.
Announcements from the Dumbarton Oaks Papers
A new website and open access
Behind the Exhibition: Contemporaries
Contemporaries is both a display of the literal contemporaries of Dumbarton Oaks’ founders, and an exhibition that questions what a contemporary is in times when experiences of the same moment can vastly differ and experiences across centuries can be eerily alike.