Hunt Institute specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora. Learn more
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Sponsorship Program
You can help to strengthen our collections and programs through monetary and material gifts. Monetary gifts are applied to our general operating fund, the endowment generously established by the Roy A. Hunt Foundation to provide ongoing support for Hunt Institute, the Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden Art Acquisition Fund or the Ronald L. Stuckey Endowment for the Preservation of Botanical History. Material gifts are added to the collections in our Archives, Art Department, Bibliography Department and Library.
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Strandell Collection of Linnaeana
Curated by the Library, the Strandell Collection of Linnaeana includes nearly all published works, in almost every known edition and translation, by the great Swedish naturalist-physician Carolus Linnaeus as well as works by a number of his students and a considerable amount of commentary about Linnaeus and his natural history students, as published up to the late 1960s.
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Looking Back: An International Retrospective, Part 1
14 September–14 December 2023To celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary of our International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration series, we are having a two-part retrospective exhibition in fall 2023 and spring 2024 featuring some of the 1,212 artists who have been included in the series since 1964. The fall 2023 exhibition includes works by 46 artists from the first eight Internationals. The celebration culminates with the opening of our 17th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration in fall 2024.
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