Welcome to the Morgan - The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBReserve Tickets. Hours The Morgan Library & Museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10:30 am to 5 pm, and Friday from 10:30 am to 7 pm. The Morgan closes at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve and 5 pm on New Year's Eve. Closed Mondays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
Belle da Costa Greene, the Morgan’s First Librarian and Director
WEBBelle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) was one of the most prominent librarians in American history. She ran the Morgan Library for forty-three years—nineteen as the private librarian of J. Pierpont Morgan and later his son, Jack, and twenty-four as the inaugural director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (now the Morgan Library & Museum).
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, founded by Pierpont …
WEBContact information. 225 Madison Avenue. New York, NY 10016. (212) 685-0008. Terms and conditions. Just a short walk from Grand Central and Penn Station, the Morgan is a major exhibition venue for fine art, literature, and music, one of New York's great historic sites, and a wonderful place to dine, shop, and attend a concert or film.
Explore the Collection - The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBExplore the Collection. See highlights of J. Pierpont Morgan's immense holdings of Egyptian art, Renaissance paintings, Chinese porcelains, illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints. Watch Morgan staff disucssing a selection of items from the Morgan's collection in this video series.
Current Exhibitions - The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBAug 12, 2024 · Current Exhibitions. Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio. April 12 through October 20, 2024. Liberty to the Imagination: Drawings from the Eveillard Gift. June 7 through October 6, 2024. J. Pierpont Morgan's Library. Ongoing.
1906: J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library
WEBThe building envisioned by McKim was to embody the Renaissance ideal of the unity of all the arts, integrating architecture, sculpture, and painting, and utilizing the finest materials and craftsmanship. By 1900 Pierpont Morgan decided to build a library next to his brownstone at the corner of Madison Avenue and 36th Street.
J. Pierpont Morgan's Library - The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBIn June 2022 the Morgan completed the first comprehensive exterior restoration of the library that J. Pierpont Morgan commissioned from architect Charles Follen McKim. This American Renaissance masterpiece, completed in 1906, is the historic heart of the Morgan Library & Museum. The restoration addresses weathering, deterioration, and minor ...
Three Gutenberg Bibles - The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBThree Gutenberg Bibles. May 20 through September 28, 2008. Online exhibition ». For the first time in more than a decade, the Morgan Library & Museum presents all three of its Gutenberg Bibles, the largest number of copies in any single collection. Three Gutenberg Bibles allows visitors to see important differences in copies of the first ...
The Morgan Book Project - The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBThe Morgan Book Project is a free extended learning program in which the Morgan’s education staff collaborates with New York City public school teachers to implement curriculum in their classrooms based on traditional methods of book production. During class visits, students study and take inspiration from the Morgan’s renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray - The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBWith its memorable tale of ageless beauty and a concealed portrait, The Picture of Dorian Gray stands as one of Oscar Wilde’s most enduring and widely read literary works. Inspired at once by gothic horror fiction, French decadent literature, and contemporary aesthetic theory, the novel incited a storm of controversy in the late nineteenth century for its moral ambivalence and veiled ...
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