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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.

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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.