Morgan's McKim Building Restored

The Morgan Library & Museum’s landmark McKim Building will reopen Saturday, October 30, after the first major interior restoration since its construction more than 100 years ago. The building, designed by the firm of McKim, Mead and White, was once the private study and library of financier Pierpont Morgan. The Italianate marble villa, designed in the spirit of the High Renaissance, is considered one of New York’s great architectural treasures, and its interiors are regarded as some of the most beautiful in America. Nearly 300 objects dating from 3500 BC to the Twentieth Century will be displayed throughout the building’s majestic rooms in a series of rotating exhibitions. The restoration project encompasses all of the McKim’s rooms and exhibition spaces: library (East Room), study (West Room, which includes the vault), office (North Room) and the Rotunda. Key components include new lighting to better illuminate its extraordinary murals and décor, the opening of the North Room to visitors for the first times, installation of new exhibition cases to house rotating displays of masterpieces from the Morgan’s collections, restoration of period furniture and fixtures and cleaning of the walls and applied ornamentation. The Morgan Library & Museum is at 225 Madison Avenue, at 36^th Street. For information, please call 212 685-0008 or visit www.themorgan.org.