The Rosenbach serves as the repository for the work of author and illustrator Maurice Sendak (1928 - ), creator of some of the world's best-loved children's books. The collection comprises over 10,000 preliminary and final drawings, manuscripts, and rare editions from more than 80 books. In the Maurice Sendak Gallery visitors can view rotating exhibitions from the collection, which includes such classics as Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, the Little Bear series, Brundibar, The Sign on Rosie's Door, We are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, A Hole Is to Dig, Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More To Life, and Dear Mili.

 

Above: Illustration from Where the Wild Things Are. ©1963 Maurice Sendak.

 

The Rosenbach Museum Shop is the only authorized source for a wide variety of books and prints signed by Maurice Sendak, as well as an assortment of unsigned Sendak books, prints, toys and more. Visit our online shop or call 215-732-1600, x213 to learn more.

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