News
To Make a Prairie closing soon
16 June 2026
There are only two weeks left to see To Make a Prairie: Pollination and Human Understanding. Visit the Institute through 30 June to see this exhibition tracing the evolution of knowledge about plant reproduction from anecdotal observation to scientific fact and examining how those discoveries were shared, debated and accepted by the global community.
Please note: we will be closed on 17 and 18 June for a power shutdown and on 19 June for Juneteenth.
About the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora.
Media Contact:
Scarlett T. Townsend
412-268-7304
st19@andrew.cmu.edu
