Event Calendar

Harry Ransom Center: Lives and Literacy in Ancient Egypt is an immersive exhibition that brings to life the voices of a multilingual, multicultural society from Greco-Roman Egypt. Developed in collaboration with the John Rylands Library, this exhibition features rare papyrus…

Brooklyn Museum: The exhibition Common Sense puts America’s past in dialogue with its present. Statesman, abolitionist, and philosopher Thomas Paine is credited with framing the argument for independence at the onset of the American Revolution. His most important writings,…

The Morgan Library & Museum: In honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Morgan Library & Museum presents a select group of important materials relating to the history of the founding of the nation in the rotunda of the historic library.…

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art: Among the greatest of American picture books, The Story of Ferdinand turns ninety in 2026. In a single sitting in 1935, Munro Leaf dashed out a story for his friend Robert Lawson, choosing an exotic setting, Spain, and an unlikely hero…

Minneapolis Institute of Art: Meruhen, the Japanese word for fairy tales, originated from the German word Märchen, coined in the 15th century. The word meruhen first appeared in the early 20th century among Japanese writers interested in European romanticism and children’s…