• IWW4@lemmy.zip
    2·
    1 天前

    If you are ever in NYC and have time to check this place out …. don’t bother.

    That picture looks great and is the entirety of what that “library’ has to offer. The whole place is a total nothing burger.

    • Kent Navalesi ☕️@mstdn.socialOP
      0·
      1 天前

      @IWW4

      I guess most of its fans know it for its collection rather than its museum. From the wikipedia page:

      The Morgan Library & Museum has long contained a collection of illuminated manuscripts,[230] which date from the sixth to sixteenth centuries.[118][146][231] As early as 1923, the Morgan Library counted 560 illuminated manuscripts in its collection,[232] a number that had grown to over 1,100 by the 21st century.[231]

      • IWW4@lemmy.zip
        1·
        1 天前

        Yeah and that doesn’t change anything. Unless you are a researcher and get permission you are not going to interact with those manuscripts at all.

        The place isn’t for sight seers.

  • RegularJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 天前

    The site was formerly occupied by several Phelps family residences, one of which was sold to J. P. Morgan in 1880.

    1906 - Completed as the private library of the banker J. P. Morgan.

    1924 - The library was made a public institution by J. P. Morgan’s son John Pierpont Morgan Jr., in accordance with his father’s will. Since this time it has seen numerous expansions and renovations.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Library_%26_Museum

  • Andonyx@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 天前

    Here’s a secret for free: in the newer building attached, there is a cafe. They have the best deviled eggs in the city.

  • Lexam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 天前

    I checked out Stanley Morgan from there for like a week. Wonderful person, you should check him out if you have a chance.