Exhibitions at the Folger

Upcoming exhibitions

Current exhibition

Shakespeare's the Thing January 28- June 15, 2014

Permanent displays

First folio case

Founders' Room

Buildings and grounds

Past exhibitions

2010s

2000s

1990s

Earlier exhibits

  • Elizabethan Households (1995)
  • Sword and the Pen (1995)
  • Collectors’ Choice (1994-1995)
  • Royal Autographs: the Tudor and Stuart Monarchs of England (1994)
  • Roasting the Swan of Avon: Shakespeare's Redoubtable Enemies & Dubious Friends (1994)
  • Unfaded Pageant: Edwin Austin Abbey [Loan Exhibition] (1994)
  • Paintings from the Folger Shakespeare Library (1993-1994)
  • Famous Beasts: Renaissance Animal Lore (1993)
  • The Elizabethan View of Italy (1993)
  • New World of Wonders, 1492-1700 (1992-1993)
  • Fine and Historic Bookbindings (1992)
  • Reign of the Horse (1992)
  • The First Folio of Shakespeare (1991)
  • Five Years of Acquisitions (1990- 1991)
  • Cathedral: Faith in Stone (1990)
  • Rosenbach Redux: Further Book Adventures in Book Collecting (1990)
  • Shakespeare: The Works (1989)
  • Age of William III and Mary II – Tercentenary Exhibition (1989)
  • The Grete Herball: Books from the Collection of Mary P. Massey (1988-1989)
  • The Elizabethan Theater: the Theater Art of C. Walter Hodges (1988-1988)
  • Time: The Greatest Innovator: Timekeeping and Time Consciousness in Early Modern Europe (1986-1987)
  • Marianne Moor Exhibition (1987)
  • The Compleat Gentleman: Books from English Country Houses (1985-1986)
  • Emily Dickinson Centennial Symposium and Exhibition (1986)
  • The Kemble Family: A Theatrical Dynasty (1985)
  • The Collector and the Dream (1982-1983) "in at least 3 parts"
  • The Treatment of Books and Art Materials (1983)
  • Martin Luther, 1483-1546: A Jubilee Exhibition (1983)
  • Magna Carta (1982)
  • Shakespeare, the Globe, and the World (1979-1981)