Current Exhibitions

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives exhibits their collection materials in the rotunda and two galleries at the front of Hoover Tower. The entry rotunda and the Herbert Hoover Room currently feature the long-term exhibition Hoover@100: Ideas Defining A Century. The Lou Henry Hoover Room showcases our rotating exhibitions that change twice a year. It is currently closed as we install the upcoming exhibition The Battalion Artist: A Sailor's Journey through the South Seas, which will open on September 12, 2024.

Collage of two photographs and a watercolor from the Natale Bellantoni papers

The Battalion Artist

A Sailor's Journey through the South Seas
 
Opening September 12, 2024

Visitors to Hoover Tower are invited to embark on a special journey through the Pacific theater of World War II via the newest exhibition presented by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Come discover the wartime experiences of Natale Bellantoni, a gifted artist and member of the US Navy “Seabees”—the tireless construction battalions that played a vital role in America’s victory in the Pacific. See the war through Nat’s eyes and gain a better understanding of a generation of young Americans who served beside him.

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Hoover@100

Ideas Defining a Century
 
Ongoing

Founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, the Hoover Institution started as a special collections library at Stanford University. Today it is a leading public-policy research center with a world-renowned Library & Archives, that houses many of the modern era’s most important material on war, revolution, and peace. In this centennial exhibition, learn the history of the Hoover Institution while seeing a showcase of documents and artifacts centered around the ideas of peace, freedom, and education—ideas that are embodied in the lives of Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry, and that drove the Institution’s collecting and the work of its eminent fellows in its first one hundred years.

Online Exhibitions

Discover our online exhibitions and related digital stories via our HISTORIES

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Past Exhibitions

Discover the trove of past exhibitions at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives since 1998

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