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All Digital Exhibits & Projects

In addition to exhibitions, fellowships and awards, and programs, Dumbarton Oaks makes its collections and scholarship accessible through print and online publications, born-digital research projects, online catalogues and databases, and curated selections from our museum, library, and archival collections.

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Digital Projects

Dumbarton Oaks is dedicated to making its research and scholarship accessible to everyone. Discover our born-digital research projects below, and find more scholarly resources under Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, and Garden and Landscape Studies.

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Online Collections

Many of Dumbarton Oaks’ rich collections, including the museum, rare books, and library and archives, are available online.

Museum Collections

Search the collections on our museum website,  and explore several of our most significant collections of Byzantine objects here: lead seals, coins, textiles, and manuscripts.

Rare Book Collection

Search the collection through the HOLLIS catalog, and explore fully digitized titles, selections from the Mildred Bliss’s autograph letters, and correspondence, drawings, and photographs related to the development of the historic Dumbarton Oaks Gardens.

Library and Archives

Search our library holdings in the HOLLIS catalog. Additional collections include a database of microfilms of Byzantine manuscripts, a research portal for Moche iconography, a collection of postcards and other ephemera related to our areas of study, and finding aids and digital assets for our archival collections.

Byzantine Online Exhibits

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Jan 22, 2024

North Africa

Roman North Africa has a long and complex history as a cultural, intellectual, religious, and agricultural hub.
Jan 22, 2024

Cultural Heritage of Syria Through Photographs

Syria is a region of diverse histories, landscapes, and religions, documented in photographic collections by Frank Kidner and others held by Dumbarton Oaks.
Dec 17, 2021

Lasting Impressions: People, Power, Piety

Each lead seal is a small witness to an individual Byzantine and how they chose to present themselves. In exploring what seal owners said about themselves and how designs changed over a millennium, this exhibition evokes the world in which Byzantines, from empresses to bathhouse attendants, lived.

Pre-Columbian Online Exhibits

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Jan 30, 2023

Colonial Epidemics and Mesoamerican Medicine in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

This exhibition explores epidemics and medicine through documents penned by Indigenous scholars and artists during the sixteenth century, at the height of societal collapse, and reflects on the colonial origins of health inequality in the Americas.
Feb 06, 2020

Written in Knots: Undeciphered Accounts of Andean Life

Long before the arrival of the Spaniards, the people of South America had a system of recorded information that was portable, precise, and so complex that it remains undeciphered today.
Jul 16, 2015

Past and Present: Views of Maya Monuments

This interactive exhibition matches ten lithographed plates of Maya monuments from Frederick Catherwood’s 1844 “Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan” with contemporary photographs by Jay A. Frogel to show the passage of time.

Rare Book Online Exhibits

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Mar 10, 2020

Margaret Mee: Portraits of Plants

Centered on the paintings of botanical artist Margaret Mee, this exhibit explores the traditions of women botanical artists and illustrators primarily using materials from the Rare Book Collection.
Feb 11, 2019

Hans Vredeman de Vries

This selection from the Rare Book Collection contains several important titles that give a taste of Hans Vredeman de Vries’s versatility and prolificacy as a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer.
Feb 11, 2019

Exuberant Visions of the German Baroque

Through selections from the Rare Book Collection, this exhibition conveys the varied and dynamic character of the German baroque, which was marked by theatricality and the attempt to achieve harmony among myriad parts.

ICFA Online Exhibits

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Jan 22, 2024

North Africa

Roman North Africa has a long and complex history as a cultural, intellectual, religious, and agricultural hub.
Jan 22, 2024

Cultural Heritage of Syria Through Photographs

Syria is a region of diverse histories, landscapes, and religions, documented in photographic collections by Frank Kidner and others held by Dumbarton Oaks.
Jun 25, 2018

Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection

Nicholas V. Artamonoff left behind a collection of at least 1033 photographs, dating from 1930 to 1947, providing a glimpse into the diverse urban environment of Istanbul and western Turkey,