Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    New Work by Tanya Marcuse - Woven

    September 4, 2017

    Woven Nº 17, 2016, pigment print, 62 x 124”, edition of 3 New work by Beinecke Library photographer Tanya Marcuse now on view at the Julie Saul Gallery! Tanya...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Bird-Watching

    August 1, 2017

    Part scientific endeavor, part leisurely pastime, the activity we call “bird watching” includes the careful work of devoted scholars and that of curious...
  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    New Research: Gosálvez on J. M. Barrie

    July 12, 2017

    New Scholarship by Patricia Gosálvez: “Lady Cynthia Asquith. La aristócrata y el viejo Peter Pan ” in El Pais Semanal “WHEN JM BARRIE, author of Peter Pan, was...
  • Interview with Trevor Winkfield

    July 7, 2017

  • The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    Revenants: Memories of Books

    May 30, 2017

    New work by Beinecke Library photographer Meredith Miller is now on view in the exhibition “Evidence: Art & Fact” The Gallery Upstairs at the Institute...
  • Gertrude Stein's Library

    February 14, 2017

    Writers’ libraries and personal book collections have sometimes arrived at Beinecke Library—in whole or in part—along with literary archives. And like literary...
  • Exhibition Opening Celebration

    September 22, 2016

  • Retreat

    September 18, 2016

  • Icons of American Literature

    September 15, 2016