Exhibitions

• Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

  

  The nearly 230 artifacts in this exhibit were thought to be lost forever, casualties of the years of warfare, looting and destruction that followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the rise of the Taliban in 1996. Instead most of them had been secretly hidden in crates in the Central Bank within the presidential palace in Kabul.

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  • National Gallery of Art
  • National Geographic Education

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  • 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae: Herodotus's Real History
  • Angkor What? Angkor Wat!
  • Following the Great Wall of China
  • Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
  • Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana
  • Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana: Showing your Dharma
  • Marco Polo Takes A Trip

• NEH Exhibitions Today

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• Treasures of Heaven

  

  This website, based on the NEH-funded exhibit, explores the history of Christian saints and their relics through a variety of different digital tools and programs. Learn about exhibition objects through the cultural, geographical, and architectural environment for which they were originally created.

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  • A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
  • Allegory in Painting
  • Chaucer's Wife of Bath
  • Exploring Arthurian Legend
  • Lesson 1: On the Road with Marco Polo: A Boy in 13th Century Venice
  • Mapping the Past
  • Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages
  • Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Tales of King Arthur
  • The Beauty of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to Beowulf
  • The Path of the Black Death

• Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible

  

  The words of the King James Bible ring out today in books, poems, popular songs, speeches, and sermons. Visit Manifold Greatness for the story of one of the most widely read books in the English language.

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  • Dr. King's Dream
  • Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
  • Lesson 1: Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)—The Purpose of the American Union
  • Lesson 1: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nonviolent Resistance
  • Lesson 1: The First Great Awakening
  • Lesson 2: Religion and the Argument for American Independence
  • Lesson 3: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Crossing the River
  • Lesson 3: Religion and the Fight for American Independence
  • Lesson 3: The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union
  • Lesson 4: The Second Inaugural Address (1865)—Restoring the American Union
  • Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence
  • Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words
  • Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip

• Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

  

  Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge celebrates Northern Renaissance artists' contributions to the scientific investigations of the 16th century through prints, books, maps, as well as sundials, globes, and more. The site is enhanced by an interactive web tool and iPhone/iPad applications.

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  • Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

• Robert Louis Stevenson at the University of South Carolina

  The University of South Carolina marked the centenary of Robert Louis Stevenson's death in 1894 with a special exhibition illustrating his life and writing career. Drawing on the Stevenson holdings in the University Libraries' Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and on additional items from the G. Ross Roy Collection of Scottish Literature, the original exhibit included most of Stevenson's first editions, the early magazine publication of Treasure Island and other adventure stories, and a full range of his travel writings, sensation fiction such as the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and later Scottish novels. This online version includes additional materials not included in the original exhibit as well as hypertext links to other sites of interest.

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  • Robert Louis Stevenson at the University of South Carolina

• 1968

  

  The Minnesota Historical Society, in partnership with the Atlanta History Center, the Chicago History Museum and the Oakland Museum of California, brings you a major exhibit documenting this pivotal year. The 1968 Exhibit is an ambitious, state-of-the-art, multi-media exhibit that looks at how the experiences of the year fueled a persistent, if often contradictory, sense of identity for the people who were there.

• Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit

  The subject of this exhibition is the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937). It covers his upbringing in Philadelphia, his success as an artist overseas, his faith, his contributions to modernism, and his artistic innovations.

• Legacy of Genghis Khan

  

  This exhibition examines the important artistic and cultural achievements that occurred in the Iranian world in the aftermath of the Mongol invasions.

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  • Al-Mizan
  • Legacy of Genghis Khan
  • Teaching the Middle East

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  • Animals of the Chinese Zodiac
  • Marco Polo Takes A Trip

• Jewish Museum of Maryland

  

  Experience the Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture, and American Jewish Identity exhibition, which examines the diversity of Jewish eating and uncovers the messages in this cuisine.

• Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and the African Atlantic World

  

  This exhibition from the Fowler Museum at UCLA explores the visual cultures and histories of Mami Wata, examining the world of water deities and their powers. It demonstrates how art both reflects and actively contributes to beliefs and religious practices, globalization, and capitalism. Most of all, it reveals the potency of images and ideas to shape the lives of people, communities, and societies.

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  • Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
  • Lesson 3: Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
  • The Meaning Behind the Mask
  • Unicorns, Dragons, and Other Magical Creatures

• Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World

  

  Contested Visions, funded in part by NEH and co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, examines the significance of indigenous peoples within the artistic landscape of colonial Latin America. The exhibition offers a comparative view of the two principal viceroyalties of Spanish America—Mexico and Peru—from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

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  • When Worlds Collide

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  • Mexican Culture and History through Its National Holidays
  • Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción and the Spanish Mission in the New World
  • Other Worlds: The Voyage of Columbus
  • Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply
  • Sor Juana, la monja y la escritora: Las Redondillas y La Respuesta
  • Sor Juana, la poetisa: Los sonetos
  • Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets
  • The Aztecs — Mighty Warriors of Mexico