Current Exhibitions

Inquiring Minds

Rosenbach Researchers Report Back

On Display: Wed, 11/23/2011 - Sun, 03/25/2012

Each year, hundreds of on- and off-site researchers make use of the Rosenbach’s collections. Inquiring Minds is the first of its kind: an exhibition that shows a cross-section of our researchers’ projects from concept to completion.

Pen to Publisher

The Life of Three Sendak Picture Books

On Display: Tue, 01/24/2012 - Sun, 07/15/2012

This exhibition follows the lives of three picture books by Maurice Sendak: The Sign on Rosie’s Door (1960), Outside Over There (1981), and Brundibar (2003). Spanning more than 40 years, each of these books was inspired and produced in radically different ways by Sendak and his...

Final drawing for Brundibar. © 2002 by Maurice Sendak.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Titanic

The Rise of Rosenbach

Wed, 02/15/2012 - Sun, 06/24/2012

Among the 1,500 passengers who died when the Titanic sank beneath the waves on April 15, 1912, was young, Philadelphia bibliophile Harry Widener. Titanic: The Rise of Rosenbach tells the intertwined story of the Wideners and the Rosenbachs and the fateful voyage, along with other Titanic book-tales. More