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.

Campus wide guide

  • 032. Stop 32. Running Eros, Holding a Torch

    2nd or 1st century BC [200–0 BC?]
    Bronze
    23 3/16 inches (589 mm)
    Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1902

  • 033. Stop 33. East Room

  • 034. Stop 34. Secret Staircases

  • 035. Stop 35. The Ceiling

  • 036. Stop 36. Triumph of Avarice Tapestry

    Woven by Willem de Pannemaker (Flemish, ca. 1510–1581), after a design by Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Flemish, 1502–1550)
    1534–36
    Wool, silk, and gilt-metal wrapped thread
    12 x 24 feet (4.43 x 15 m)
    Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906

  • 037. Stop 37. Stavelot Triptych

    Triptych containing two small Byzantine triptychs on the center panel. Meuse River Valley.
    Ca. 1156–58
    Wood panels with copper-gilt frames, silver pearls and columns, gilt-brass capitals and bases, vernis brun domes, semi-precious stones, intaglio gems, beads, champlevé and cloisonné enamels
    19 inches (484 mm) x 26 inches (660 mm)
    Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910

  • 038. Stop 38: On the Shelves

  • 039. Stop 39. The Role of Conservation

  • 040. Stop 40. The Gutenberg Bible

    Biblia Latina
    Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg & Johannes Fust
    Ca. 1455
    Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1896.

  • 041. Stop 41: Librarian’s Work