Update:

We have resumed some on-campus services, including book pickup, virtual consultations, and fulfilling scanning/digitization requests. Many library materials are available online, but our buildings remain closed until further notice.

Exhibits

Exhibits tell the unique stories of our diverse collections. Visit one today.

Featured Exhibits

Virtual: Inside Widener Library

Explore the architecture and history of Harvard's famous Widener Library
Through Thursday, Jun 2, 2022

Virtual: The Story of Prester John

Discover how Europeans made sense of the diverse world around them in the age of European expansion just prior to the colonial era
Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022

Virtual: How Mapmakers Used Animals to Document the World

Explore how animals helped early European mapmakers understand the expanding world
Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Three men standing in front of a brick building. John F. Kennedy stands at the right, smiling, holding a hat.

Harvard Lives

Through Monday, May 31, 2021
Location: Harvard University Archives
A closeup of a shelf of books

Virtual: Found in Translation, Contemporary World Fiction Revisited

Thursday, Nov 5, 2020
Location: Lamont Library
Rainbow-colored glass balls

Virtual: 16th Annual International Photo Contest

Monday, Nov 2, 2020
Location: Lamont Library
blue button that reads Tammy Baldwin for US Senate

Virtual: Redefining the Table—Diversifying U.S. Elections in the 2010s

Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020
Location: HKS Library and Knowledge Services
Widener Library lobby image from above

Virtual: Inside Widener Library

Through Thursday, Jun 2, 2022
Location: Widener Library
A fanciful map of the world featuring animals

Virtual: How Mapmakers Used Animals to Document the World

Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Location: Harvard Map Collection
Manuscript map of Bavaria from 1813

Virtual: Annotating the Landscape

Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Location: Harvard Map Collection
detail of an illustration of two men with Arabic text

Virtual: Picturing the Sultan

Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Location: Fine Arts Library
Prester John map

Virtual: The Story of Prester John

Through Saturday, Jun 25, 2022
Location: Harvard Map Collection
black and white photograph of the moon

Virtual: Mapping the Moon in Black and White

Wednesday, Sep 9, 2020
Location: Harvard Map Collection
Yellow button that reads "Remember Rodney King. Racial justice now, from Boston to L.A.

Virtual: Decades of Resistance—Political Movements and Protest Pins since 1960

Thursday, Oct 1, 2020
Location: HKS Library and Knowledge Services