The Morgan Library & Museum remains open. Plan your visit. Due to the poor air quality in New York City, the Morgan Garden will be closed this weekend.
Past Exhibitions
The Little Prince: A New York Story
January 24 through April 27, 2014
This exhibition of the original manuscript and watercolor drawings—the most comprehensive ever mounted—explores the American origins of a story that reminds us that what matters most can only be seen with the heart.
Leonardo da Vinci: Treasures from the Biblioteca Reale, Turin
October 25, 2013, through February 2, 2014
The Morgan is delighted to present visitors with a unique opportunity to see, for the first time in New York, Leonardo da Vinci's extraordinary Codex on the Flight of Birds, and one of his most celebrated drawings, Head of a Young Woman, together with a selection of other works on paper.
The exhibition will feature nearly one hundred items, drawn primarily from the Morgan's holdings and The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at The New York Public Library, two of the most important collections of Poe material in the United States.
"Lose not heart": J. D. Salinger's Letters to an Aspiring Writer
September 10, 2013, through January 12, 2014
The Morgan will present the first public presentation of nine revealing letters and postcards written by J. D. Salinger to Marjorie Sheard, an aspiring Canadian writer, between 1941 and 1943.
Reflections on a Nation: American Writings from the Gilder Lehrman Collection
September 10, 2013, through January 12, 2014
This fall, the Morgan will display a selection of exceptional documents from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, one of the country's foremost archives of Americana.
Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings
September 27, 2013, through January 5, 2014
Drawn entirely from the museum's holdings, Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World features a selection of more than one hundred works on paper and chronicles the vitality and originality of drawing during Venice's second Golden Age.
As part of the Bicentenary celebrations of the Royal Philharmonic Society, the Morgan will display two historic copyist scores of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, marking the first time they have been brought together since their creation in 1824.
