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

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

This year marks a century since the Morgan Library & Museum’s founding in 1924. It is staggering to think of how much the world, New York City, and the Morgan have changed since then. Once the personal library of the financier J.

Morgan collected Western Asian seals and cuneiform tablets.

The conservators evaluate the condition of each object and undertake any repairs or treatment needed to render the object safe to display.

In 2000 the Trustees engaged the Renzo Piano Building Workshop to develop an architectural plan for expansion.

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

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.