Curator Robinson McClellan gives us a tour of the installation of works by Frédéric Chopin currently on view in the museum's Rotunda of the Historic Library through September 14! The installation features the recently discovered waltz (ca. 1830) found in the Morgan’s music collection last year, alongside other works by Chopin from the same period: an early masterpiece he wrote as a teenager in Poland, a mazurka (Polish folk dance) he conceived when he was leaving the country, and an étude he com

Now on view: "J. Pierpont Morgan's Library: Building the Bookman's Paradise" In 1902, the American financier and collector J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) commissioned architect Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909) of the firm McKim, Mead & White to design a freestanding library next to his home on East 36th Street in New York. With rarely seen architectural drawings, period photographs, and significant rare books and manuscripts from Morgan’s collection, this exhibition traces the design, constructi

Our curators Christine Nelson and Jennifer Tonkovich give a look inside the creation of our exhibition, “J. Pierpont Morgan's Library: Building the Bookman's Paradise.” With rarely seen architectural drawings, period photographs, and significant rare books and manuscripts from Morgan’s collection, “Building the Bookman’s Paradise” traces the design, construction, and early life of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library. It honors the designers, tradesmen, artists, and builders who created the Library more