PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY
225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 www.themorgan.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The mission of the Morgan Library & Museum is to preserve, build, study, present, and interpret a collection of extraordinary quality, in order to stimulate enjoyment, excite the imagination, advance learning, and nurture creativity.

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 252,430 visitors in fiscal year 2020, primarily for a wide variety of changing exhibitions encompassing works from the Morgan's permanent collection and from other museums and libraries in the U.S. and abroad. Exhibitions during fiscal year 2020 included "John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal," "Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan, and "Verdi: Creating Otello and Falstaff."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 Drawing Institute, established in 2011, 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.

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 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 advanced internships in conservation techniques and practices.

Public Programs: In fiscal year 2020, 8,789 people attended a wide range of concerts, lectures, films, family programs and workshops, many by renowned artists and experts in their field. Music programming included concerts by numerous presenting organizations and exhibition-related performances. An active program of lectures and gallery talks primarily addressed themes related to exhibitions on view. Docents gave 489 tours of the Morgan's campus and exhibitions to over 8,545 visitors. The Morgan's school programs served 8,595 K-12 students of diverse communities.

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