Exhibitions
Sparking curiosity and enhancing public access to the Library & Archives collections since 1921
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 currently features The Battalion Artist: A Sailor's Journey through the South Seas.
Open Monday through Sunday, 10am – 4pm*
Exhibitions in the Hoover Tower galleries and the rotunda are free and fully open to the public.
*Hoover Tower is open on Martin Luther King Jr, Presidents', Memorial, and Labor Day holidays, and closed for other university holidays and campus winter closure (view holiday schedule), as well as during Stanford home football games (view schedule).
The Battalion Artist
A Sailor's Journey through the South Seas
September 12, 2024 – August 10, 2025
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.
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
Past Exhibitions
Discover the trove of past exhibitions at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives since 1998
