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Morgan Library to Reopen After $106-Million ExpansionThe Pierpont Morgan Library in New York is scheduled to reopen April 29 after a three-year, $106-million expansion designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Renzo Piano.The steel-and-glass addition by Piano, who designed the Pompidou Center in Paris, increases the exhibition space by over 50% and adds a 280-seat performance hall, a new reading room outfitted with electronic services and additional workstations, and an underground collection-storage area. To emphasize that it welcomes the public as well as scholars, the institution, which began in 1906 as the private library of financier John Pierpont Morgan, will now be known as the Morgan Library and Museum, the Long Island Newsday reported April 25. Inaugural exhibitions for the new space will include “Masterworks from the Morgan,” featuring works from the permanent collection, and a selection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, including the Reims Gospel Book (dating from around 860), the Hours of Catherine of Cleves (around 1440), and the Farnese Hours (1546). Posted April 28, 2006. |
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