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Greenhouse Project to Enhance Environmental Sustainability & Increase Access at Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks announces a campus improvement project that will enhance sustainability, K-12 educational activities, and support of the arts and humanities at Dumbarton Oaks.
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.
Dumbarton Oaks Receives Important Donation of Pre-Columbian Objects from William J. Conklin
An early trip to Peru, the first of many, transformed William J. Conklin’s life forever and sparked his interest in the people and cultures of the Andes, particularly ethnographic and Pre-Columbian textiles.
Dumbarton Oaks Museum Acquires Important 9th Century Byzantine Manuscript
Dumbarton Oaks recently acquired a Byzantine manuscript of John Chrysostom’s Homilies on St. Matthew, written very likely at the end of the ninth century in Constantinople.
Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR to Launch Plant Humanities Initiative
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides support for digital tool and research and scholarly programming
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.
Announcing the Music at Dumbarton Oaks 2017-2018 Concert Season
For the first time ever, single-concert tickets are available for the Music at Dumbarton Oaks concert series, coinciding with an especially exciting 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 useful knowledge.”