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Jon Evans, chief of libraries and archives, offers an inside look at the rare Shakespeare folio in the Rienzi Collection.

The exhibition Making the Movable Book showcases titles from the Hirsch Library collection that contain movable mechanisms such as pull tabs, flaps, and pop-ups.

The Museum’s Hirsch Library showcases graphic artist Aaron Douglas, who began his artistic career during the Harlem Renaissance.

The MFAH art collections and the Hirsch Library collections inspired this trivia quiz. Share with friends & family for a friendly (virtual) competition!

A recently catalogued record collection reveals the Masterson family’s previously little-known passion for theater and music.

El Techo de la Ballena, an avant-garde group of Venezuelan artists active during the 1960s, produced publications that promoted an anarchic, violent, and aggressive stance toward politics and culture. A few of these printed materials are on view in the exhibition Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955–1975.

Houston just happens to have a delightful fall lined up for Anglophiles all around the city! One Shakespeare-themed play—The Book of Will, at Main Street Theater through October 21—inspired us to take another look at one of the rarest yet most influential books in the MFAH collection.

French artist Claude Cahun experimented with—and rewrote—the complexities of gender roles and identity.

Jon Evans, chief librarian and archivist for the Museum, spends many of his days roaming through towering stacks of books and building the Museum’s impressive collection at the Hirsch and Powell libraries.