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About the Morgan. A 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 ...
When Pierpont Morgan acquired his first medieval manuscripts at the end of the nineteenth century, he laid the foundation for a collection whose quality would rank among the greatest in the world. Since Morgan's death in 1913, the collection has more than doubled. Spanning some ten centuries of Western illumination, it includes more than eleven ...
Belle 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).
Morgan Library & Museum, cultural institution in New York City that displays and collects artistic, literary, and musical works from ancient times to the present day. Originally a repository for the collection of American financier John Pierpont Morgan, the institution opened to the public in 1924.
In 1902 Pierpont Morgan hired the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White to build a library adjacent to his brownstone on 36th Street and Madison Avenue. In design and purpose, the library stands as one of the purest expressions of an American movement at the turn of the century. It took as its model the artistic and humanistic ideals of ...
Die Morgan Library & Museum (offizieller Name seit 2006, bekannt als Pierpont Morgan Library, Morgan Library oder The Morgan) ist eine Bibliothek an der Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. Sie besitzt eine hervorragende Sammlung von Manuskripten, Papyri, Inkunabeln, frühen Drucken, illustrierten Büchern, Musikautographen und Graphiken.
1 mar 2024 · J. Pierpont Morgan's Library 1906 ... The Morgan Library & Museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10:30 am to 5 pm, ...
