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Niklaus Manuel Güdel

Perspectives from a Conservator and a Curator

The Morgan Library & Museum is an important research center for scholars. We make our collections as accessible as possible within the limits set by their rarity and fragility.

Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, interviews George Goldner, former Curator of Paintings and Drawings, J.

Take a closer look at three touching, humanist drawings by Rembrandt (1606–1669) in the Morgan's collection. John Pierpont Morgan loved Rembrandt. He owned 500 prints by Rembrandt, and in 1909 acquired his first drawings by the artist.

Barbara Wolff and Roger Wieck

This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome of the painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit, an important early work by Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571–1610).

Combining diverse artworks from across the Morgan’s collections and some exceptional loans, Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling explores how stories shape our world.

"The closest thing to a human being is a book. I know people think it’s a dog, but they’re wrong…When you look at manuscripts or letters and they’re written in the hand of the writer, you are closer to that writer, you’re closer to the person.” –Fran Lebowitz

Opera is primal. It's about the human voice that we are born with and how it can communicate emotion. So we have to have a way to get ideas for reinvention.