Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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Browse The Rose Haggadah, illuminated by contemporary artist Barbara Wolff, using the techniques of medieval manuscript illumination.
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September 14, 2001, through January 13, 2002The brilliant and celebrated writer, dramatist, aesthete, wit, and self-proclaimed "lord of language" was the focus of Oscar Wilde: A Life in Six Acts, originally organized by the British Library. Wilde's (1854–1900) rise to success as a literary and social figure was meteoric. His decline to notoriety and disgrace was equally dramatic. Twelve years after publishing his first work of fiction, in 1888, he was dead at the age of forty-six, buried in a pauper's grave on the outskirts of Paris.
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View images and descriptions of all works in William Blake's World: "A New Heaven Is Begun," listen to a curatorial discussion and Jeremy Irons read Blake poetry, and watch a multimedia presentation on Blake narrated by former director Charles Ryskamp.
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This is a two-page manuscript of the final nine stanzas Anne Brontë's poem “Views of Life”.
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This manuscript in William Blake's hand is the sole source for seven of his poems, including “Auguries of Innocence.”
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May 20 through August 29, 1999This milestone exhibition—the Morgan's first devoted exclusively to twentieth-century art—served as the centerpiece of the institution's yearlong celebration of its seventy-fifth anniversary.
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View all five objects in an exhibition that explores the development of writing in Mesopotamia—the wedge-shaped system that we call cuneiform—that was in use for over three thousand years.
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November 25, 2025 through January 11, 2026Every holiday season, the Morgan displays Charles Dickens's original manuscript of A Christmas Carol in J. Pierpont Morgan's Library.
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With its three-story inlaid walnut bookshelves and magnificent ceiling, the East Room was designed as a treasury for Pierpont Morgan's remarkable collection of rare printed books.
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Browse and read information about sixty-four images of works by thirty-two different artists.
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