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The winner of these two passes will take a walk through history and gorgeous gardens.  The Huntington is three "museums" in one - library, art, and botanical gardens.  In all the years I lived in Califfornia, I never visited this library and after learning more about it, I want to go next time I am there.

Library Highlights:

The Huntington Library is one of the world’s great independent research libraries in the fields of British and American history, literature, art, and the history of science, stretching from the 11th century to the present.

• Unparalleled materials related to the history of the American West.
• The Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (ca. 1400–1405).
• One of 12 vellum copies of the Gutenberg Bible known to exist (ca. 1455) and one of the most extensive collections of 15th-century printed books in the U.S.
• Quarto and folio editions of Shakespeare’s plays, some of which were printed during the writer’s lifetime.
• Letters and manuscripts by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, & Abraham Lincoln, including the original manuscript of Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography.
• First editions and manuscripts by authors such as Jack London, Alexander Pope, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, and William Wordsworth.
• Rare books and manuscripts on the history of science, medicine, and technology.

Art Highlights:

The Huntington’s art collections focus on European art from the 15th to the early 20th century and American art from the late 17th to the late 20th century.

• Distinguished collections of late 18th- & early 19th-century British art including Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, and Turner’s The Grand Canal, Venice, and more.
• Italian and northern European renaissance paintings along with a spectacular collection of 18th-century French sculpture, tapestries, porcelain, and furniture.
• 18th-century continental European art, particularly French paintings, including works by Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Antoine Watteau.
• Renaissance and Mannerist bronze statuettes, including Giambologna’s Nessus and Deianira.
• The European art collections include about 420 paintings, 370 works of sculpture, 2,500+ decorative art objects, and 20,000 prints and drawings.
• The American art holdings number about 270 paintings, 80 works of sculpture, 1,000 decorative art objects, 9,500 prints and drawings, and 1,800 photographs.
• The paintings collection include works by Frederic Edwin Church, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, and Andy Warhol.
• 18th- and 19th-century paintings, furniture, and works of decorative art offer visitors insights into the history of American art practice.
• A gallery devoted to the work of early 20th-century Pasadena architects Charles and Henry Greene.

Botanical Gardens:

Encompassing approximately 120 acres of the 207-acre grounds, the botanical gardens contain more than a dozen principal garden areas.

• Liu Fang YuanÂ’, the Garden of Flowing Fragrance, reflecting the traditional style of scholar gardens in Suzhou, China, and featuring a 1.5-acre lake, a complex of pavilions, a teahouse and tea shop, stone bridges, and waterfalls set against a wooded backdrop of mature oaks and pines.
• The Japanese Garden, with a traditional Japanese house, a moon bridge, a walled Zen garden, and bonsai courts, and Seifu-an, a ceremonial teahouse and garden.
• The Desert Garden, one of the largest outdoor collections of mature cacti and succulents in the world.
• The Frances and Sidney Brody California Garden is arranged along a central allée of olive trees, the garden gives a nod toward more formal landscape design.
• The Frances Lasker Brody Botanical Center, features
a children’s garden, a teaching greenhouse, laboratories for botanical research, and a ranch garden testing ideas for sustainable urban agriculture.
• Additional garden areas devoted to roses and camellias, each collection with more than 1,400 different cultivars.
• The Australian, Herb, Jungle, Lily Ponds, Palm, and Subtropical gardens are among other important botanical attractions.

Item Special Note

• Two passes for The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA.
• One-day admission to the gardens, art galleries, and library exhibition halls.
• Expire December 31, 2018.
• No cash refunds or exchanges for tickets unused.
• The tickets cannot be resold.
• Nonexchangeable.
• Not responsible for cancellations or closures.
• Winner may be responsible for any shipping charges.