Dumbarton Oaks

The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is an international center for scholarship, providing resources for study and publishing scholarly works in Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape Studies. Begun as a private collection by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss in 1920, and given to Harvard University in 1940, the library and collections include art objects, artifacts, manuscripts, and rare books. Dumbarton Oaks is located in the historic Georgetown neighborhood of our nation's capital and contains 10 acres of formal gardens designed in the european tradition.