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The Reading Room occupies a naturally lit space crowning the new Madison Avenue building.

The year 2024 marks one hundred years of the Morgan Library & Museum as a public institution.

The Morgan Library & Museum Plans for a New Garden Designed by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, with Lighting by Linnaea Tillett.

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950), the Morgan’s pathbreaking inaugural director, attracted considerable attention both in the press and from her many admirers.

Today, The Morgan Library & Museum is a complex of buildings of differing styles and periods covering half a city block.

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).

In Morgan's day, visitors to the library passed through a pair of monumental bronze doors into a rotunda replete with opulent detail: variegated marble columns, an ornately patterned floor, and fine mosaic panels that line the curved walls. The ceiling paintings, by American artist H. Siddons Mowbray (1858–1928), depict three of the major literary epochs represented in Pierpont Morgan's collections—the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.

A list of selected resources about Belle da Costa Greene.

The new design integrates three historical buildings with three intimately scaled pavilions.