Rosenbach Museum & Library

Projects

  • Ongoing Publicity
About the Rosenbach

The Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia seeks to inspire curiosity, inquiry and creativity by engaging broad audiences in exhibitions, programs and research based on its remarkable and expanding collections. The museum was founded by legendary book dealer A.S.W. Rosenbach and his brother and business partner Philip. With an outstanding collection of rare books, manuscripts, furniture and art, the Rosenbach is a museum and world-renowned research library, set within two historic 1865 townhouses, that reflects an age when great collectors lived among their treasures.

About Maurice Sendak at the Rosenbach

The Rosenbach Museum & Library is the sole repository of the original artwork of famed author and illustrator Maurice Sendak and a foremost authority on all things Sendak. Author of Where the Wild Things Are and 108 other books, Maurice Sendak, now 81 years old, chose the Rosenbach to be the permanent home of his work in the early 1970s thanks to shared literary and collecting interests. The Rosenbach’s Sendak collection is the largest collection of “Sendakiana” in the world, with over 10,000 preliminary sketches, final drawings, manuscripts, books, and ephemera as well as exclusive recent interview footage in which Sendak discusses his life, childhood, work, and inspirations. Throughout the year, the Rosenbach displays rotating Sendak-specific exhibitions featuring work from the museum’s vast Sendak collection and offers special Sendak-themed Hands-On Tours, events and educational programming.

Visit the Rosenbach

 The Rosenbach Museum & Library is located at 2008-2010 Delancey Place in Philadelphia and is open Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and groups of 10 or more, $5 for students and children ages 5-18, and free for children under 5.

For more information, please call (215) 732-1600 or visit www.rosenbach.org

Press

Hear author Maurice Sendak reflect on turning 80 and discuss his life in art and the Rosenbach Museum on the National Public Radio show, Here and Now.  Listen online:  hear-now.org.
- Here and Now, NPR
The Rosenbach Museum & Library is the subject of "The Word Museum," a feature article on the museum's literary treasures, published in Humanities Magazine by The National Endowment for the Humanities. Read the full story here, nea.gov.
- Humanities Magazine, The National Endowment for the Humanities
Read the Associated Press story on the Rosenbach's Really Rosie exhibit: Where the Sendak things are: The work of the famed children's book author celebrated at Philly's Rosenbach Museum. Click HERE.
- Associated Press

Rosenbach Wins Best of Philly 2007: Museum You've Never Been To. Read the full story here, phillymag.com.

Proclamation
- Philadelphia Magazine