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The Morgan Library And Museum
Mission:
The mission of The Morgan Library & Museum is to preserve, build, study, present, and interpret a collection of extraordinary quality, in order to stimulate enjoyment, excite the imagination, advance learning, and nurture creativity.
A global institution focused on the European and American traditions, the Morgan houses one of the world's foremost collections of manuscripts, rare books, music, drawings, and ancient and other works of art. These holdings, which represent the legacy of Pierpont Morgan and numerous later benefactors, comprise a unique and dynamic record of civilization, as well as an incomparable repository of ideas and of the creative process.
Vision:
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates creativity and the imagination, with the conviction that meaningful engagement with literature, music, history, and art enriches lives, opens minds, and deepens understanding.
Upcoming Events at The Morgan Library And Museum
Exhibition - Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy
Exhibition - Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy
Exhibition - Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy
Exhibition - Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy
Exhibition - Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy
Exhibition - Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy
Exhibition - Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy
Exhibition - Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy
Recent News
Announcing the 2024-2025 Season of Music at the Morgan
New York, NY – The Morgan Library & Museum announces its 2024-2025 concert season of Music at the Morgan that celebrates the intersection of art, literature, and music with engaging concerts inspired by its collections and exhibitions. …
Read More »The Morgan Library and Museum Presents 'Crafting the Ballets Russes: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection'
New York, NY - The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to present Crafting the Ballets Russes: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection, on view June 28 through September 22, 2024. The Robert Owen Lehman Collection, which has been on deposit at the…
Read More »The Morgan Library and Museum Appoints Claire Gilman as Acquavella Curator and Department Head, Modern and Contemporary Drawings
New York, NY – The Morgan Library & Museum announces the appointment of Claire Gilman, Ph.D, as Acquavella Curator and Department Head, Modern and Contemporary Drawings. This position oversees a collection of drawings that, spanning the…
Read More »The Morgan Library and Museum Announces New Co-Presidents of the Board of Trustees, G. Scott Clemons and Robert K. Steel
Martha McGarry Elected as a Vice President and Rachel Stern as a Trustee New York, NY – The Board of Trustees of the Morgan Library & Museum has elected Robert K. Steel and G. Scott Clemons as Co-Presidents effective April 1, 2024. Along…
Read More »The Morgan Library & Museum Announces Endowment of Its Directorship by Katharine J. Rayner in Honor of Its Centennial
The Morgan Library & Museum Announces Endowment of Its Directorship by Katharine J. Rayner in Honor of Its Centennial The Jerome L. Greene Foundation Also Pledges Endowment Funds to the Institution New York, NY (March 5, 2024) – Last…
Read More »The Morgan Library and Museum Presents 'Seen Together: Acquisitions in Photography'
New York, NY – The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to present Seen Together: Acquisitions in Photography, opening January 26 and on view through May 26, 2024. Part of a year-long celebration of the Morgan’s centennial as a public…
Read More »The Morgan Presents 'Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature'
New York, NY – The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to present Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature. Opening February 23 and on view through June 9, 2024, the exhibition tells the life story of Beatrix Potter, one of the twentieth…
Read More »The Morgan Library and Museum Announces Jennifer Kalter as Director of Education and Public Programs
New York, NY -- The Morgan Library & Museum is delighted to announce the appointment of Jennifer Kalter as Director of Education and Public Programs. Kalter will lead the activities of the department, which include organizing concerts, lectures,…
Read More »The Morgan Library and Museum Fall Exhibitions 2023 - 2024
Opening October 6 | Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals Seeds of Knowledge highlights the collection of 15th to 17th-century European printed herbals of Dr. Peter Goop (Liechtenstein). Herbals were highly illustrated, critical…
Read More »The Morgan Library and Museum Announces New Appointments
New York, NY - The Morgan Library & Museum is delighted to announce five appointments across its curatorial, conservation, and merchandising departments. Sarah W. Mallory joins as Annette and Oscar de la Renta Assistant Curator of Drawings and…
Read More »The Morgan Library and Museum Announces 2023-2024 Concert Season
The Morgan Library & Museum Announces the 2023 – 2024 Season of Music at the Morgan New York, NY (August 11, 2023) – The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to announce its 2023-2024 season of Music at the Morgan. The season…
Read More »Exhibition - Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio at The Morgan Library And Museum
British artist Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is one of the most celebrated abstract painters of her generation. This exhibition—the first dedicated exclusively to her drawings in over fifty years—provides an intimate view of Riley's studio…
Read More »Morgan Garden Returns for 2023 Season
The Morgan Garden Returns Open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from May 5 through October 29, 2023 New York, NY – The Morgan Garden reopens on Friday, May 5th. Visitors to the Morgan are able to enjoy the Garden with museum admission…
Read More »Exhibition - Blaise Cendrars: Poetry is Everything at The Morgan Library And Museum
Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961) was a catalyzing force for new expressions in European art in the first part of the twentieth century. An intrepid spirit, he led an itinerant life, leaving behind his native Switzerland for St. Petersburg, New…
Read More »Exhibition - Nora Thompson Dean: Lenape Teacher and Herbalist at The Morgan Library And Museum
The installation in the Rotunda and the Garden in Summer 2023, developed collaboratively with the Lenape Center, honors Nora Thompson Dean (1907–1984), a Lenape teacher and herbalist who dedicated her life to preserving Lenape culture. Born…
Read More »Exhibition - Into the Woods: Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift at The Morgan Library And Museum
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates the gift of more than 130 drawings and photographs from the collection of Karen B. Cohen with the exhibition Into the Woods: Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift. Combining objects from…
Read More »Exhibition - Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings - Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey at The Morgan Library And Museum
A modern art pioneer, renowned Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) created works that range from vast symbolist compositions to intimate, realist portraits and nearly abstract landscape paintings. This exhibition of approximately sixty…
Read More »The Morgan Library And Museum - 2023 Exhibitions At The Morgan
Click Here to view The Morgan Library And Museum is pleased to share its 2023 advanced exhibition…
Read More »Exhibition - Uncommon Denominator: Nina Katchadourian at the Morgan
In Uncommon Denominator, Nina Katchadourian (American, born 1968) stages a conversation among works from throughout her career, artifacts of her family’s history, and objects drawn from every corner of the Morgan’s vaults. To enlist the…
Read More »Exhibition - The Little Prince: Taking Flight at The Morgan Library And Museum
The Morgan holds the original manuscript and art for one of the world’s most widely read and cherished books, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince (1943). Writing in exile during the second World War, Saint-Exupéry…
Read More »Exhibition - Entrance to the Mind: Drawings by George Condo in the Morgan Library and Museum
In 2021, the Morgan acquired twenty-eight drawings by American artist George Condo (b. 1957) that offer an overview of his career over the last forty-five years. Drawing, or "visual thinking" as he calls it, is central to Condo’s practice,…
Read More »Exhibition - Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason at The Morgan Library And Museum
Around 1700, as an increasingly pious Louis XIV withdrew to Versailles, Paris flourished. The dynamic artistic scene included specialists such as Claude Gillot (1673–1722) who forged a career largely outside of the Royal Academy, designing…
Read More »Exhibition - Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi at The Morgan Library and Museum
In a letter written near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) explained to his sister that he had lived away from his native Venice because he could find no patrons there willing to support “the sublimity of my…
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