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Overview

In 2004, the Rosenbach unveiled a permanent gallery dedicated to showcasing highlights of the collections during its 50th-anniversary celebration. The Highlights Gallery features a changing exhibition of the museum's most illustrious objects, and allows visitors to see more of its remarkable holdings.

Open year-round, the Gallery will feature objects such as the Bay Psalm Book, selections from James Joyce's manuscript for Ulysses, personal letters by George Washington, sculpture by Matisse, silver by Hester Bateman, oil-on-metal portrait miniatures, poetry and letters by Marianne Moore, historical maps, old master drawings, early printing, important Judaica, examples of fine press and printmaking, and much more.

The Rosenbach collections are categorized as follows:

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
• Rosenbachiana (The Rosenbach Company archives)

Visit our Collections page for more information on these categories.

Above: Majolica bowl (Italy, ca. 1590).