The Rosenbach's literary collections include virtually all of the manuscripts and papers of Modernist poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972), thus making the Rosenbach the undisputed center for the study of this important American writer. The Moore Collection is a unique literary repository, preserving intact a comprehensive record of a writer's intellectual development. The Rosenbach has become a pilgrimage site for students and lovers of twentieth-century American art and literature, and the Moore papers are the heart of this collection. It is their great significance to the story of Moore's artistic and intellectual growth that has made them such an important and heavily-used resource.

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Moore's Greenwich Village living room is permanently installed on the third floor of the historic Rosenbach house.

The Marianne Moore Room is always on view to visitors as part of the Rosenbach house tour.

Fine and Decorative Arts

Fine Arts

Metal, Ceramics, and Glass

Portrait Miniatures

Furniture, Clocks, Looking
Glasses, Lighting, and Textiles

Vertu and Jewelry

Rare Books, Manuscripts,
Maps, and Broadsides

Americana

English, American, and
Continental Literature

Book Arts, Incunabula,
Maps and Broadsides

Judaica, Children’s Literature,
and Rosenbachiana

Collections Highlights

James Joyce's Ulysses

Marianne Moore Archive

Maurice Sendak Collection