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2010

  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, TO PRESENT NEW MARK TWAIN EXHIBITION IN CELEBRATION OF THE 175TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE LEGENDARY AUTHOR

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    Opening September 17, 2010, the exhibition includes more than 120 rare books, letters, notebooks, diaries, photographs, and drawings associated with the author's life and work. Mark Twain: A Skeptic's Progress is on view through January 2, 2011.
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  • THE MORGAN'S LANDMARK McKIM BUILDING, THE OLDEST STRUCTURE IN THE MUSEUM COMPLEX, REOPENS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 AFTER FIRST MAJOR INTERIOR RESTORATION SINCE ITS CONSTRUCTION IN 1906

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    The project provides enhanced exhibition space for the institution and enables the Morgan to share with the public more treasures from its world-renowned permanent collection.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM’S HISTORIC MCKIM BUILDING TO UNDERGO FIRST MAJOR INTERIOR RESTORATION SINCE ITS CONSTRUCTION IN 1906

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    Beginning in June 2010, The Morgan Library & Museum's iconic McKim building will undergo the most extensive restoration of its interior spaces since its construction more than one hundred years ago.
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  • MANUSCRIPTS BY COMPOSERS SUCH AS MOZART, BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN, DEBUSSY, SCHUBERT, AND MAHLER TO BE MADE AVAILABLE ON THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM’S WEB SITE 

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    The Morgan Library & Museum has announced that on December 20, 2010, it will make digital versions of more than forty celebrated music manuscripts from its extraordinary permanent collection available on its Web site for the first time.
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  • EXHIBITION OF RARELY SEEN ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS BY ANDREA PALLADIO TO GO ON VIEW AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM APRIL 2

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    A collection of thirty-one drawings by Palladio from the outstanding collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects Trust is on view in a special exhibition from April 2 through August 1, 2010.
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  • THE ART AND POETRY OF NATURE—NEW MORGAN EXHIBITION EXPLORES THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT'S INFLUENCE ON LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN DESIGN

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    Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design is on view May 21 through August 29, 2010, and features approximately ninety highly influential texts and outstanding works of art.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO HOLD FIRST EXHIBITION DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO ROY LICHTENSTEIN’S BLACK-AND-WHITE DRAWINGS

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    Opening September 24, 2010, the exhibition presents an important series of large-scale, black-and-white works as a group for the first time and examines Lichtenstein's less known exploration of the medium of drawing.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS MAJOR EXHIBITION DOCUMENTING THE PRACTICE OF DIARY KEEPING BY WRITERS, ARTISTS, AND OTHER CELEBRATED FIGURES SHOW INCLUDES EXAMPLES OF JOURNALS KEPT BY HENRY DAVID THOREAU, SIR WALTER SCOTT, CHARLOTTE BRONTË

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    Drawn from the Morgan’s own extraordinary holdings, The Diary: Three Centuries of Privates Lives is on view from January 21 through May 22, 2011.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT EXTREMELY RARE ASSYRIAN STONE TABLET DATING TO THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY B.C.

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    An inscribed tablet from the Middle Assyrian period of Mesopotamia will go on view at The Morgan Library & Museum from April 13 through September 5, 2010.
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