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

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

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.

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

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

During the last years of his life, Pierpont Morgan spent a great deal of time in his richly appointed private study, away from the Wall Street offices of his banking firm.

The Morgan Library & Museum stands on land that is part of Lenapehoking, the unceded ancestral homeland of the Lenape people.

Morgan collected Western Asian seals and cuneiform tablets.

Laura Coombs Hills (1859–19520 Belle da Costa Greene, 1910 Watercolor on ivory; 5 3/4 × 4 1/4 in. (14.6 × 10.8 cm) The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, gift of the Estate of Belle da Costa Greene, 1950; AZ164

In 1924, eleven years after Pierpont Morgan's death, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867–1943) transferred ownership of the Library to a board of trustees.