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In 1902, the American financier and collector J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) commissioned architect Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909) of the firm McKim, Mead & White to design a freestanding library next to his home on East 36th Street in New York.

We look forward to welcoming you to our new garden this summer. As part of the second phase of a $12.6 million restoration project, this new outdoor space will add a new layer to our campus. It will enable visitors to experience the jewel of our campus—J.

Join Joshua O'Driscoll, Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, for a virtual exploration of a 1,200-year-old book that forms the cornerstone of the renowned collection of illuminated manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum.

Join Dr. Francesca Cappelletti, esteemed Caravaggio scholar, Director of the Borghese Gallery, and co-curator of Caravaggio 2025 at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, for a lecture in connection with the Morgan’s current exhibition, Caravaggio’s “Boy with a Basket of Fruit” in Focus.

Since our announcement on February 14, 2019, we have been working hard with a team of skilled experts on the $12.6 million exterior restoration of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library.

Cornel West is a professor at Princeton University, civil rights campaigner, and author of many works on race, religion, and politics, including Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom, Race Matters, and The Cornel West Reader. No stranger to the screen, he appeared in two sequels

The Hours of Catherine of Cleves is the greatest Dutch illuminated manuscript in the world. Its 157 miniatures are by the gifted Master of Catherine of Cleves (active ca. 1435–60), who is named after this book.

Sal Robinson, Assistant Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, takes us into Jane Austen's world with the manuscript of Lady Susan, the only surviving complete draft of any of her novels.

The Pass of St. Gotthard, near Faido

Maria Fredericks, the Sherman Fairchild Head of Conservation in the Morgan's Thaw Conservation Center, shares her insights on conserving the Codex Mellon.