Dumbarton Oaks
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Viewing Byzantium through Arts & Crafts Eyes: from Greece to Sudan
Byzantine Studies Public Lecture | February 6
Benjamin Appl & Bryan Wagorn | Purchase Tickets Now
Music at Dumbarton Oaks | February 23–24, 2025
The County as Ecosystem: Political Economy and Landscape History in Boulder, Colorado and Benzie, Michigan
Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture | February 27
"The White House" by Santiago Montoya
Contemporary Art Program | September 2024-June 2025
Striking Designs: Communicating Through Coins
May 1, 2024–May 31, 2025 | Now On View
Land as Archive | Bound by the Beverleys
Now on view in the Orientation Gallery and Catalogue House
Visit the Museum
See the Music Room, Pre-Columbian Galleries, and more
Visit the Gardens
November 1–February 28 | Open 2:00–5:00 p.m., Tuesday–Sunday, except for federal holidays
Dumbarton Oaks supports research and learning internationally in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies through fellowships and internships, meetings, and exhibitions. Located in residential Georgetown, Dumbarton Oaks welcomes researchers at all career stages who come to study its books, objects, images, and documents. It opens its doors to the public to visit its historic garden, designed by Beatrix Farrand; its museum, with world-class collections of art; and its Music Room, for lectures and concerts. The institute disseminates knowledge through its publications and online resources. Innovative programming has introduced students of all ages to the museum, garden, and collections.
Mar 02, 2025 - Mar 03, 2025
McGill/McHale Trio
All concerts take place Sundays and Mondays at 7:00 p.m.
Byzantine Studies Symposium
April 25–26, 2025 | Byzantine Studies symposium exploring issues such as identity, authority, ethnicity, race, belonging, and memory among medieval Christian communities in Africa.,
Research
Dumbarton Oaks supports and publishes scholarship in the three areas of study supported by Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss: Byzantine Studies, including related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, western Medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern Studies; Pre-Columbian Studies of Mexico, Central America, and Andean South America; and Garden and Landscape Studies, including garden history, landscape architecture, and related disciplines.
Studies Programs Fellowships & Awards Library & Archives Publications