Morgan Library & Museum celebrates 100 years with special program

The Morgan Library & Museum in New York, housed in the former home of Pierpont Morgan, is celebrating its centennial with a special program. Opened to the public in 1924, the institution holds a monumental collection of rare books and artworks, including a Gutenberg Bible, manuscripts by Dickens and Austen, drawings by Parmigianino and Dürer, and scores by Mozart, Bach, and Mahler. The building, designed by Charles Follen McKim and completed in 1906, features Renaissance-style interiors with tapestries, stained glass, and painted ceilings. A garden by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan and underground study spaces by Renzo Piano Building Workshop were added in the early 2000s. The Morgan has become a global research and conservation resource, with over 250,000 annual visitors and 7 million online consultations. For its centenary, the Morgan will host exhibitions of drawings from the Eveillard Donation (including Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rubens, Seurat, Guercino, and Cézanne) through October, a focus on ballet creative processes from the Robert Owen Lehman collection, 17th-century landscapes, watercolors by Walton Ford, and in October, a show on first director Belle da Costa Greene and Franz Kafka's autograph heritage (including the original manuscript of The Metamorphosis) from the Bodleian Library.