Morgan Library Works On Makeover

The Pierpont Morgan Library is undergoing an image makeover to match its $102 million building makeover. “Although the library has long had a vigorous program of exhibitions, organizing shows like “Master Drawings From the Hermitage and Pushkin Museums” that have attracted tens of thousands of visitors, its very name has long been misleading. Even some New Yorkers assume that it is a run-of-the-mill library, rather than the repository of a world-class collection of old master drawings and prints, medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, and literary, historical and music manuscripts, in addition to rare books. Many believe that it is a private institution closed to the uninvited.”