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Watch | A look at early modern "selfies" by calligrapher, artist, and writer Esther Inglis
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Watch | A look at early modern "selfies" by calligrapher, artist, and writer Esther Inglis

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Enjoy a video from the Esther Inglis special exhibition, showing how early modrern calligrapher, artist, and writer Inglis’s self-portraits helped tell her story.

Director's cut: Exhibits inspired by "Romeo and Juliet"
ART Inv. 1095 Charlotte and Susan Cushman as Romeo and Juliet realia
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Director's cut: Exhibits inspired by "Romeo and Juliet"

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Esther Ferington

Selected by director Raymond O. Caldwell and the Folger staff, with evocative descriptions by Caldwell, rare objects resonate with the themes of Romeo and Juliet.

Q&A: Greg Prickman on Imprints in Time, a dazzling special exhibition
A detailed papyrus artwork featuring two Egyptian figures. On the left is a human figure, while the right figure has a human body with a jackal head. Both are adorned in traditional garments, shown in a sideways profile, engaging with each other.
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Q&A: Greg Prickman on Imprints in Time, a dazzling special exhibition

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Esther Ferington

Greg Prickman discusses Imprints in Time, the first special exhibition in the new space, including Tolkien’s edits and an ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.

Q&A: Peggy O’Brien on a fantastical Shakespeare map
Peggy O'Brien, wearing the
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Q&A: Peggy O’Brien on a fantastical Shakespeare map

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Esther Ferington

Peggy O’Brien helps us explore a giant, richly detailed fictional map filled with Shakespeare’s characters, newly created for the Folger’s exhibition spaces.

Apollo 11 and other scientific wonders
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, photographed by Neil Armstrong.
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Apollo 11 and other scientific wonders

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Mark the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with a look at a fascinating Apollo 11 flight plan sheet that traveled to the Moon.

Celebrating a spectacular Fourth with Folger exhibitions
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Celebrating a spectacular Fourth with Folger exhibitions

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On display: A letter from Abigail Adams and other extraordinary American items help celebrate the Fourth of July.

Earle Hyman: An actor makes history
Earle Hyman as Othello
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Earle Hyman: An actor makes history

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Explore photos, stories, and a video to learn more about actor Earle Hyman, whose bust is in the Folger’s Shakespeare Exhibition Hall.