The Morgan Library & Museum

Curatorial: The Morgan Library & Museum ("the Morgan") occupies a midtown Manhattan campus comprised of three landmarked buildings that are joined by pavilions constructed of steel-and-glass panels designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano. The Morgan houses one of the world's greatest collections of artistic, literary, musical, and historical works. Included in its holdings are original scores of Mozart and Beethoven, drawings by Rembrandt and Rubens, medieval and Renaissance works, three Gutenberg Bibles, literary manuscripts by Dickens and Twain, and five-thousand-year-old carvings from the countries of ancient Western Asia. The Morgan recorded 234,610 visitors over the fiscal year, primarily for a wide variety of changing exhibitions encompassing works from the Morgan's (continued on Schedule O)permanent collection and from other museums and libraries in the U.S. and abroad. Exhibitions during fiscal year 2024 included "Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature;" "Walton Ford: Animal Studies and Sketches;" "Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo; and "Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality." The Morgan's curators plan the exhibitions, oversee the permanent collection, prepare exhibition and collection-related catalogs, organize symposia, host graduate seminars, and provide research and other services to the scholarly community.The extraordinary group of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts; printed books and bindings; literary, historical, and music manuscripts; drawings and prints; and ancient cylinder seals that J. Pierpont Morgan brought together were among the first important collections of their kind in America and form what is today the core of the Morgan's holdings. (The collection now includes photography and modern and contemporary drawings as well.) In overall quality and importance, these collections are among the finest in the world, distinguished by the high percentage of items that are unique or exceptionally rare. One of only a handful of American institutions devoted to these specialized areas, the Morgan maintains an active acquisitions program and now holds several hundred thousand items in its collection.The Morgan's Drawing Institute is devoted to the interpretation, conservation, and theory of old master and modern drawing with the goal of stimulating new lines of investigation and discourse. The Drawing Institute supports research through annual fellowships; publications; small, focused exhibitions; and an ongoing series of symposia, seminars, and lectures.

Public Programs: In fiscal year 2024, the Morgan hosted 418 programs onsite, attracting 9,809 attendees to a diverse array of talks, lectures, symposiums, conversations, workshops, and docent-led public tours. Additionally, 23 concerts were presented in Gilder Lehrman Hall, drawing a total of 3,471 people. Virtual docent-led tours continued, with 17 programs reaching 727 participants worldwide. The Morgan's school programs offered both in-person and virtual activities, engaging 7,150 K-12 students; 1,129 participants in family and teen programs; and 372 college students, spanning diverse communities.

Library and Museum Services: The Morgan Library & Museum is one of nineteen independent research libraries in the United States and, as such, makes its collections available to qualified researchers for study on-site in the Sherman Fairchild Reading Room and the Drawing Study Center. An online catalog of the collections is accessible at www.themorgan.org and assists researchers both on and off-site. Active digitization and publication programs help to extend the reach of the Morgan's scholarly services and support study of the collections.The Morgan has had professional paper and book conservation facilities since the 1950s, when they were among the first such labs in the United States. The Morgan's conservation facilities (continued on Schedule O) were dramatically enhanced with the 2002 completion of the Thaw Conservation Center. The Morgan's conservators oversee the preservation of the collections and also undertake surveys and treatment projects of discrete collection areas. The collections consist almost entirely of works on paper and related porous supports (vellum, parchment, papyri), and the conservators have developed special expertise in the conservation, restoration, and repair of such objects. Both a working and teaching facility, the Thaw Center receives requests for assistance from institutions in the United States and abroad. It offers fellowships in conservation techniques and practices.

Museum Publications and Retail: The Morgan maintains an active publications program, producing catalogues related to its exhibitions and items in its permanent collections. These catalogues are made available to the public, along with other exhibition and collection-related merchandise, through the Morgan's on-site retail shop and through the Morgan's website.