With Bloomsday only two days away, we thought we’d share some behind-the-scenes photos of the installation process for Jessica Deane Rosner’s Ulysses Glove Project, which is being displayed as part of the exhibition Thy Father’s Spirit: A Bloomsday Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Literary Manuscripts. The piece is a tribute to Rosner’s father, a Ulysses …
This week’s blog post comes from collections intern Anne Lutun. As one of her research projects we asked her to look into our ceramic figurines of Milton & Shakespeare; little did we realize how complicated that could turn out to be. – – – – Since next year will mark the 450th anniversary of the …
Last Friday the Rosenbach’s collections department took a field trip up 20th Street to visit our new colleagues in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library. We’re no strangers, having worked together though PACSCL (the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries) for years and having researched at the Free Library and borrowed …
After last week’s post on cannibalism we promised a lighter topic for this week, which comes to us courtesy of our departing collections intern Anne Baker – – – – – – – When thinking of May and what to write about, I thought of how the month is known for flowers. In searching through …
I would like to start off by inviting all Rosen-readers to come enjoy Voices of 1863: Witnesses to the Civil War, which opened just this Wednesday. We’ve packed Gallery 1 full of wonderful Civil War documents that really illuminate the wartime experience, plus there’s a chance to hear some of Dave Burrell’s compositions inspired by …
Free Library Foundation and Rosenbach directors and board chairs with the mayor and Dr. R Clearly the big news this week at the Rosenbach is our plan to merge with the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation. Here’s a quick round-up of some of the news coverage that the announcement has been receiving, in case you’d …
This week I thought I’d offer up a few behind-the-scenes photos as we get Gallery 1 ready for Voices of 1863. Here’s what the gallery looks like from the door. We decided to take a cue from the domestic nature of our gallery spaces and picked colors inspired by Victorian interiors. The exhibit will also …
Here at the Rosenbach we are thrilled when people make a personal connection with our collections. Sometimes the connection is sparked by an aesthetic encounter, sometimes a connection with a historic document, but one of our recent visitors was surprised to find a family connection here at the Rosenbach. The story comes to us from …
This week I have been working hard on wrapping up label copy for the upcoming exhibit Voices of 1863:Witnesses to the Civil War, which will open on May 1. The show focuses on three events of 1863–the Emancipation Proclamation, Vicksburg, and Gettysburg, and as the title suggests, the main goal of the exhibit is to …
Sometimes good things come in small packages, which is certainly true for this petite pocket timepiece. It measures only 2 inches across, but I think its interest far exceeds its size. Ludovico Theodatus Muller, sundial. Brass. Augsburg, 1725-1775. Rosenbach Museum & Library 1954.2082 Nowadays, when folks want to know what time it is, they generally …