This Madison Avenue institution began as the private library of financier J. Pierpont Morgan and is his artistic gift to the city. Building on the collection Morgan amassed in his lifetime, the museum houses first-rate works on paper, including drawings by Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Picasso; three Gutenberg Bibles; a copy of Frankenstein annotated by Mary Shelley; manuscripts by Dickens, Poe, Twain, Steinbeck and Wilde; sheet music handwritten by Beethoven and Mozart; and an original edition of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol that’s displayed every yuletide. In 2006, a massive renovation and expansion orchestrated by Renzo Piano brought more natural light into the building and doubled the available exhibition space. A theater, Gilder Lehrman Hall, regularly hosts recitals and concerts.
The Morgan Library & Museum

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- Address:
- 225 Madison Ave
- New York
- Cross street:
- at 36th St
- Contact:
- View Website
- 212-685-0008
- Transport:
- Subway: 6 to 33rd St
- Price:
- $22; seniors, students and children 12–16 $13-$14
- Opening hours:
- Wednesday to Sunday, 10:30am to 5pm
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