Programs & Events

All programs are free with museum admission unless otherwise stated. Please RSVP when suggested as space is limited.

Wild Things Whirilgig performance
Family

Sendak in Spring

A Program for Families, Saturday and Sunday
Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
On this very first weekend of spring join us in celebrating Sendak with our annual festival for kids of all ages. Sendak loves books, the Rosenbach loves books, and you do too, right? More
Gallery Talk

Friend or Faux: Research
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Join exhibition curator Kathy Haas for a look at how we know what we know about our objects and what questions still remain unanswered. More
Reading Group

Ulysses Reading Group
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Contact sheet of Ms. Moore at NYU interview, photographed by Luigi Pellettieri.
Reading Group

Marianne Moore's Poetry

A Reading Group
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Preliminary drawing of dust jacket for A Very Special House, written by Ruth Kra
Gallery Talk

Drawing on the Walls: Ruth Krauss’s Kids
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Detail, George Washington (1732-1799), autograph retained draft
Seminar

A Seminar on Books and Prints

Friend or Faux: Imitation and Invention, from Innocent to Fraudulent.
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 12:00am - 2:00pm
Past Event Archive

Signature Programs / Events

Wild Things Whirilgig performance

Sendak in Spring

A Program for Families, Saturday and Sunday
Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
On this very first weekend of spring join us in celebrating Sendak with our annual festival for kids of all ages. Sendak loves books, the Rosenbach loves books, and you do too, right? More
Bloomsday

Bloomsday
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 12:00am - 7:00pm
Philadelphia's Bloomsday at the Rosenbach is one of the cultural highlights of the season, drawing hundreds of friends, neighbors, Joyce enthusiasts, book-lovers, and curious passersby to Delancey Place throughout the day. June 16, 2009 will mark the 17th annual Bloomsday at the Rosenbach—an event that is not to be missed! More
The Dracula Festival

The Dracula Festival
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 6:00pm - Friday, October 29, 2010 - 6:00pm
Every October, the Rosenbach—home of Bram Stoker’s original research notes and outlines for Dracula—brings you another chilling Dracula Festival, a month-long series of events inspired by Stoker’s classic novel and the iconic figure. More
More Signature Events

Hands-On Tours

Wild West

Friday, March 12, 2010 - 3:00pm
Discuss the deceptions, motives and passions which lay just below the surface as you read, and handle immigrant guides,travelogues,and maps of travel routes and settlements. More
Sir John Tenniel, The jabberwock. 1870 or 1871.1954.22

Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson

Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 3:00pm
Mathematician and cleric Charles Lutwidge Dodgson published children’s books under the pen name Lewis Carroll. This tour will explore both the man and the author, drawing on letters from Dodgson to his publishers, original drawings by John Tenniel (the illustrator of the Alice books) photographs of children taken by Carroll, and, of course, copies of his books. More
James Joyce, Ulysses: autograph manuscript, "Scyllas and Charybdis" episode.

James Joyce & Irish Authors

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 3:00pm
The Rosenbach is well known for the works of James Joyce and Bram Stoker, but the “English Literature” collections include many other notable Irish authors as well ... More
George Cruikshank, hand colored woodcut print. London, ca. 1840.

Love Letters

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 3:00pm
From the aching yearnings of poet John Keats for his beloved Fanny Brawne to the dying wishes of a Civil War soldier writing home to his family, the Rosenbach is home to a variety of love letters. Join us for this rare peek into some of the most personal and emotional writing in our collections. More
More Hands-On Tours
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