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Announcement

The museum will be closed for Independence Day, July 4, 2010.

Posted: Mon. Jun. 28th, 2010 4:03pm

Announcement

As a result of a rainy forecast for Wednesday, June 16, Bloomsday 2010 moves indoors. Please join us at the Trinity Center for Urban Life anytime between 12:00 and 7:00 p.m., located two blocks from the museum at the corner of 22nd and Spruce Street.

Posted: Tue. Jun. 15th, 2010 4:49pm

Announcement

2010 Rosenbacchanal

Posted: Tue. Apr. 20th, 2010 11:05am

The 2010 Rosenbacchanal takes you on a trip to Philadelphia’s historic Navy Yard, to celebrate in style at the Urban Outﬁtters’ headquarters. The evening will include cocktails, ﬁne food, music, entertainment, and so much more! To learn more about this event, please visit our Special Events page located under Contribute. More

Press Release

Love Letters Hands-On Tour features famed love letters by poet John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Posted: Thu. Jan. 28th, 2010 2:01pm

As part of the museum’s popular Hands-On Tours, the Rosenbach Museum & Library will present Love Letters, a peek into some of the most personal and emotional writing in the museum’s collections, including some of the most famous, and touching original love letters written by poet John Keats to his beloved, Fanny Brawne. The first Love Letters Hands-On Tour of the fall will be held on Friday, October 9 at 3 p.m., with additional tours offered on November 13 and December 16. Coinciding with Love Letters is the release of the highly-acclaimed motion picture Bright Star, a drama about the intense love affair between John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). The latest film from Academy Award-winning director, Jane Campion (The Piano) will play in local theaters, opening Friday, September 26 at the Ritz East (Landmark Theatres) and Friday, October 2 at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute. More

Press Release

The Rosenbach Museum & Library unveils two new fall exhibitions

Posted: Thu. Jan. 28th, 2010 1:44pm

On Wednesday, September 23 from 6 – 8 pm, the museum will host an opening party for both exhibitions, unveiling work by Maurice Sendak and Sue Johnson. Admission to the museum will be free during this time and the event is open to the public. More

RML in the News

A charming apology from Lewis Carroll

Letters of Note 03/09/2010

As Tim Burton's take on the story consumes moviegoers across the world, it seems a good opportunity to read a letter or two from the original creator of Alice in Wonderland: Charles Dodgson. The letters were kindly supplied by The Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia; home to one of the finest Lewis Carroll collections in the world where hundreds of related letters, photographs, books - even original drawings by Sir John Tenniel - can be enjoyed. A visit to their website will reveal more. More

Don’t be late! ‘Mad Tea Party’ at Rosenbach

The Times Herald 02/26/2010

“A Mad Tea Party” invites museum-goers to celebrate Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, examine a first edition copy of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” up-close, sample teas from local tea companies Cha Cha Tea and NecessiTea (among others), learn how to brew the perfect cup, and view several tea sets from the Rosenbach’s collection. More

Marianne Moore and Alice In Wonderland-Inspired Installation at the Rosenbach Museum & Library

Art Daily 02/26/2010

The Rosenbach Museum & Library's new exhibition Moore Adventures in Wonderland, currently on view through June 6, 2010, is a Marianne Moore and Alice in Wonderland-inspired installation, created by Rosenbach Artist-in-Residence, Sue Johnson. The exhibition investigates the Rosenbach’s collection of the work of author Lewis Carroll and Modernist American poet and writer Marianne Moore and uncovers the unexpected connections between the two. More

Philagrafika 2010: Enrique Chagoya Creates a Real Head Ache at The Rosenbach Museum & Library

PRINTERESTING 02/12/2010

The Rosenbach Museum & Library invites the public to view and explore The Head Ache, an original work by 19th century populist artist George Cruikshank, and the print reinterpretation of the same name created by controversial 21st century artist Enrique Chagoya. ..Over three days of discourse and hands-on creative expression, the Rosenbach will offer a series of lectures and programs exploring Cruikshank and Chagoya’s work and the ways in which the two printmakers employ satire to address important social issues, from Thursday, February 18 – Saturday, February 20. More

Rare Books Don’t Always Live in Glass Cases

New York Times 11/01/2009

The Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, home to the books once owned by the Rosenbach brothers, well-known book dealers of the last century, has begun a series of hands-on tours, in which visitors can accompany a member of the staff and handle objects from the collection and learn their history. More

A bloodier Dracula rises again

CNN 10/31/2009

"We knew of the legacy of Bram Stoker, but as kids growing up in Montreal, it wasn't that big a deal," he said. "Every now and then at Halloween you'd get joked: 'Is it safe to come to the Stoker house? Are we going to get candy or bitten in the neck?' " -Dacre Stoker More

New Dracula sequel released

The Signal 10/30/2009

It was usually around Halloween when Dacre Stoker would get the question about his last name and if he was any relation to Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. The answer is yes; his great-grandfather was the brother of the author. Now, the Aiken, S.C. resident has furthered his Family’s literary name by producing a sequel to his great-grand-uncle’s work. More

‘Wild Things’ nails the real, raw feelings of youth

Montgomery Media 10/22/2009

When you do the math, you might think of “Where the Wild Things Are” as being in the same sandlot as movies based on video games. Think about it. A full-length film based on a children’s book that is only 10 sentences long. And those surface dwellers that just want to be entertained and not have to actually, God forbid, THINK might feel the same with the claim that, “Well, gee, nothing really happens, now, does it?” More

‘Let the wild rumpus begin!’

Montgomery Media 10/21/2009

Last week’s opening of the movie “Where the Wild Things Are,” based on the famous children’s book by Maurice Sendak, has children and adults alike in an excited frenzy, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library is showing everyone that the wild things are right here in our own backyard with their “And It’s Still Hot: Where the Wild Things Are” exhibit. More

Another Stoker bites into the Dracula legend

Philadelphia Inquirer 10/20/2009

The vampire whose unquenchable thirst for blood Bram Stoker chronicled in the 1897 classic, Dracula, has returned. Again. And once again, history's ultimate revenant has oozed into our world out of the dread pen of a Stoker. The count's postmodern, postmortem return was engineered by Stoker's great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker - coauthor, with Dracula expert and screenwriter Ian Holt, of Dracula the Un-Dead, a terrific and terrifically bloody sequel to Bram's book, set in London 20 years after the first book closes. More