Rosenbach Museum & Library

The Rosenbach Museum & Library seeks to inspire curiosity, inquiry, and creativity by engaging broad audiences in exhibitions, programs, and research based on its remarkable and expanding collections. History: The Rosenbach Museum & Library was founded in 1954 through a testamentary gift by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952) and his brother, Philip (1863-1953). Renowned dealers in books, manuscripts, and fine art, the brothers played a central role in the development of private libraries that later became our nations most important public collections of rare books, such as the Folger and Huntington Libraries. The brothers own personal collection, now the core of the Rosenbach, features treasures the brothers were unable to part with, including the only surviving copy of Benjamin Franklins first Poor Richard Almanac and the manuscript of James Joyces Ulysses. The collection has since grown to include the papers of poet Marianne Moore, Bram Stokers notes for Dracula, and the drawin...