Exhibit: Creature Comforts: 175 Years of Dogs and Cats at Home (Houghton)

 September 2–December 11, 2025

“There’s no place like home” – and for many people home is incomplete without a pet dog or cat. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the items in this display delve into the powerful relationship between pets and the idea of home, and its associations of belonging and security, safety and acceptance, and obedience and propriety. They also explore the fine line between tameness and wildness, and the limits of the human social order.