Celebrating Cultural Heritage

Dia de Los Muertos folklorico dancers dressed in colorful skirts with flowers in their hair perform

Cultural heritage is embedded throughout The Huntington’s collections, gardens, exhibitions, and public programs. This hub invites visitors to explore the artists, histories, communities, and ideas that shape our shared story—year round.

A close up of a bird's head and beak painted on glass with trees and lawn blurred in the background.

Latino and Hispanic Heritage

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A black-and-white photo of a man and woman holding a sign that reads "I LOVE MY GAY SON."

Pride Month

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Two lion dancers in elaborate costumes perform in front of crowd on a grassy lawn.

Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage

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A clay sculpture with glossy black glaze, sitting on a pedestal with pictures in the background, depicts a woman with an elaborate hairstyle.

Black and African American Heritage

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A person looks at a photographic landscape still by the artist Mercedes Dorame.

Native American Heritage

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Collections Connections

Designed to spark cross-disciplinary discovery, The Huntington’s new digital platform, Collections Connections, brings together nearly 1 million digitized records from its Library, Art, and Botanical collections in one searchable space. Users can explore themes such as Latino heritage, women artists, and Borderlands—revealing unexpected relationships between objects, histories, and ideas across the institution.

A woman with long hair carries and caresses the face of a child.

Latino/Hispanic Heritage

The Latino/Hispanic Heritage collection celebrates the people, knowledges, and communities that contribute to Latin American history and culture.

A young woman with windswept hair and dressed in the regalia of the Indigenous coastal peoples of California stands amid crashing waves in the black-and-white photograph "Hermosa" by the artist Cara Romero.

Borderlands

The history of the United States has been defined by a series of cultural encounters along a constantly shifting, ever-evolving border.

Mothers and children are depicted enjoying nature and playing on a swing in a painting.

Women Artists

This grouping features a selection of European, American, and Asian works made by women artists from the 18th century to the present, which are now in the collections of the Huntington Art Museum and Library.

Current and Alumni Research Fellows

Meet the voices helping interpret these histories today

Catherine Ceniza Choy stands in front of the Munger Research Building

A woman with red and black long hair in a red and black dress grinds down natural pigments using a metate.

Catherine Ceniza Choy is the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington. Her research focuses on the life and legacy of Filipina food scientist, chemist, and humanitarian Maria Ylagan Orosa, examining the intersections of food science, botany, and U.S. colonialism in the Philippines.

Kevin Dawson, recipient of The Huntington’s Kemble Fellowship in Maritime History, researches how African and Afro-Atlantic peoples built rich aquatic cultures of swimming, diving, and navigation. His public-history project connects archival discovery with contemporary access, inclusion, and belonging on the water.

Artist Sandy Rodriguez creates maps and codices using natural pigments and amate paper. Drawing on The Huntington’s collections, she examines borderlands, memory, ecology, displacement, and histories of power across the U.S.-Mexico border through the lens of layered contemporary Indigenous visual storytelling and resistance today.

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