The Huntington Japanese Garden

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is a collections-based research and educational institution established in 1919. It is located in San Marino, Calif., and serves nearly 1,800 scholars each year conducting advanced research in the humanities. It also serves more than 20,000 school children in the Los Angeles providing informal botanical, art and library education through extensive on-site programs. It offers a collection of books, periodicals, research materials, newspapers and magazines and includes the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer s "Canterbury Tales," a Gutenberg Bible on vellum, the double-elephant folio edition of Audubon s "Birds of America," a world-class collection of the early editions of Shakespeare s works, and original letters of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Lincoln. It also has more than 120 acres of botanical area, including the Rose Garden, Shakespeare and Herb Gardens, Desert Garden and Japanese Garden. The library s art collection includes French paintings, French and British sculptures, tapestries, furniture, silver antiques and British drawings.