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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Palm drawings by Alice Ruth Tangerini
In 1980 the Institute exhibited drawings of palms by Smithsonian Institution botanical illustrator Alice Ruth Tangerini.
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Ceramic Mushrooms and Other Fungi by Martha Gene Pierson Williamson
In 1970 the Institute exhibited ceramic fungi by Martha Gene Pierson Williamson. We have ten of her ceramic mushrooms in our collection and displayed most of them in The Mysterious Nature of Fungi (2015).
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To Make a Prairie: Pollination and Human Understanding
17 March–30 June 2026Building on the words of Emily Dickinson, "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee," our spring exhibition explores how humanity came to understand one of nature's most essential relationships: the intricate partnership between plants and their pollinators.
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