Tour of the Morgan Library & Museum

**SOLD OUT** The HCNJ has arranged for a tour of the facility.

 

** SOLD OUT ** 

The HARVARD CLUB of NJ invites you to tour the:

MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

Saturday, November 2, 2013 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Morgan Museum and Library

225 Madison Avenue @36th Street

New York, NY 10016, (212) 685-0008

Website: www.themorgan.org  


A complex of buildings in the heart of New York City, The Morgan Library & Museum began as the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan, Harvard Class of 1889 (1837–1913), one of the preeminent collectors and cultural benefactors in the United States. Today, more than a century after its founding in 1906, the Morgan serves as a museum, independent research library, musical venue, architectural landmark, and historic site. In 2006, the Morgan completed the largest expansion and renovation in its history, designed by architect Renzo Piano. This project, and the first major interior restoration of the Morgan’s historic 1906 McKim building in 2010, is giving thepublic unprecedented access to the Morgan’s world-renowned collection. Today the Morgan occupies a unique position in the cultural life of New York City and is one of its greatest treasures.

Among the world’s greatest repositories of seminal artistic, literary, musical, and historical works, the Morgan’s renowned collection of rare books, manuscripts, drawings and artwork have as their principal focus the history, art, literature of Western civilization from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Collection highlights include the ninth-century Lindau Gospels, a rare vellum of copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve, drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Peter Paul Rubens, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, and Pablo Picasso, the autograph manuscript of Mozart’s “Haffner” Symphony, original manuscripts by Charlotte Brontë, John Steinbeck, and Ernest Hemingway, several hundred letters from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and Bob Dylan's lyrics for the song “It Ain't Me, Babe.”

 

 Cost: Members - $20, Nonmembers - $25

Questions: Ken Abbott at (917) 714-4810 or email abbottk@post.harvard.edu.

 

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