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 Eastern Europe and Beyond: Photographic Albums Revealed that will open September 9, 2025.

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).

Hoover@100 exhibition postcard

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.

Album cover with painting and metalwork on a purple background, R. Gajda photographic album

Upcoming Exhibition

Eastern Europe and Beyond: Photographic Albums Revealed
 
September 9, 2025 – February 8, 2026

Explore the vibrant history, cultures, peoples, and landscapes of Russia, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, and the Caucasus in a new exhibition at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Drawn from Hoover’s remarkably rich collections, the photographic albums on display offer a unique lens into 20th-century history. Learn about the album owners and makers, delve into digitized albums, and explore the profound storytelling power of photography that permeates the extensive collections at Hoover.

Online Exhibitions

Discover our online exhibitions and related digital stories via our HISTORIES

Histories logo on navy blue background surrounded by 8 images from various stories

Past Exhibitions

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

Color photograph of a woman standing in front of a past exhibition display at Hoover
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