Beautiful Architecture, the Morgan Library/Museum

I am very impressed with the Renzo Piano design of the newly high-ceiling enlarged building of the Morgan Library/Museum on Madison Avenue and 36th Street. He geniously combined Mr. Morgan’s fabulously ornate library, his study, the old family living quarters, and various galleries into one single complex with tall glass Gilbert Court and the JP Morgan Chase Lobby connecting them. The little courtyard at the entrance of the building on Madison Avenue gives a feeling of a warm welcome to visitors. The photographic exhibition of the renovation work plans and construction design are displayed in the lower level where the Gilbert Lehrman Hall and Education Center are located.
The Morgan dining room, located in the room where the family used to dine, serves food from early twentieth-century New York City cuisine.
I enjoyed the afternoon going through the galleries of Pierpont Morgan’s collection of artistic objects, drawings, prints, old books and manuscripts. Most impressive of all are the music manuscripts of Beethoven, Bach, Brahms Mozart, Schubert, and Stravinsky. The Morgan Library and Museum lives up to its name as a place where “every object is a treasure”. It was really wonderful to be able to see them displayed in a magnificent setting

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