A trip to the Morgan Library in NYC, a rare books library set up by the banker J.P. Morgan, holding an incredible collection of illuminated manuscripts, paintings, coptic manuscripts, and more! The ...

When the Franz Kafka exhibit opened at The Morgan Library & Museum in November 2024 it marked two important centennial milestones: the opening of the Morgan Library and the anniversary of Kafka’s ...

The subject of a bestseller who led a remarkable life as a scholar and cultural force while hiding her Black identity is the focus of an exhibition at the institution she headed. An online resource, ...

With its exquisitely vaulted ceiling and inlaid walnut bookshelves covering three floors, the East Room was designed as a treasury and showroom for Morgan's rare book collection. The Morgan Library & ...

At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth. By Walker Mimms If the past is a foreign country, as L.P. Hartley wrote, customs make it so.

Toward the end of the 19th century, J. Pierpont Morgan—the Gilded Age’s wolf of Wall Street—used some of his wealth to amass a vast collection of books and art. He soon realized it needed a home, and ...

A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York. A curator was sorting through a collection gifted to the Morgan Library & Museum in ...