Welcome to the Morgan - The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBThe 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. Admission.
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.
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 ...
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy - The Morgan Library …
WEBOctober 25, 2024 through May 4, 2025. To mark the 2024 centenary of its life as a public institution, the Morgan Library & Museum will present a major exhibition devoted to the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). Widely recognized as an authority on illuminated manuscripts and deeply respected as a ...
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 Building | History of the Morgan - The Morgan Library
WEBAdolph Weinman (1870–1952), a student of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculpted the allegorical reliefs on the façade. Above the central bay of the west wing, Music (or Apollo), accompanied by Fame, inspires the arts of Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Ceramics, and Textiles. On the east, Truth leads Literature, Philosophy, History, Astronomy ...
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 ...
Woody Guthrie: People Are the Song - The Morgan Library
WEBThis exhibition is presented by the Woody Guthrie Center and Woody Guthrie Publications, in collaboration with the Morgan Library & Museum. Woody Guthrie: People Are the Song is made possible by the Sherman Fairchild Fund for Exhibitions, the Charles E. Pierce, Jr. Fund for Exhibitions, Richard and Ronay Menschel, and …
About the Morgan | The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBA museum and independent research library located in the heart of New York City, the Morgan Library & Museum began as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor Pierpont Morgan. As early as 1890 Morgan had begun to assemble a collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old ...