The Rosenbach has unveiled a new Gallery Gateway online exhibitions portal that will make content from exhibitions mounted onsite at the museum available to all via the Internet. The first Gallery Gateway to debut online presents The Rosenbach’s current exhibition, American Voyager: Herman Melville at 200. A second Gallery Gateway, which has recently made its …
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Sundays with Dracula: week 1
The Rosenbach is the home of Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula, over 100 pages of outlines, early plot ideas, and research notes, compiled by the author over the seven years he developed and wrote the book. Content of these Notes will be featured in our conversations every week. These Notes provide an extraordinary look at …
Dr. Rosenbach, the First Edition of Ulysses, Smuggling and Censorship in the United States … and More Rhymes
Hello again, friends. Judy Guston here with more info about The Rosenbach’s great Ulysses collections. I would be terribly remiss if I didn’t direct your attention to our handy Joyce Collections Guide, which you can find on our website here. Once our research library is open again, I hope you’ll feel welcome to make an appointment …
Love, Marlene
This blog post was written by Andrew White What would you say to a look at some tender and romantic love letters from Marlene Dietrich, the 20th century German American actress and singer whose life and art continue to inspire? It’s the 7th week of social distancing—counting from the Ides of March when the Rosenbach …
Meet Emilie Parker our Director of Education
Meet Emilie Parker! She is the director of education at The Rosenbach. Her path to museum education started early. “I fell in love with art history right after the first course I ever took.” With some guidance from a family friend who worked in the museum world she focused on museum education. “He helped me …
A Look At The Ulysses Manuscript
Hi there, Joyceans! This is Judy Guston, Curator and Director of Collections at the Rosenbach starting a new addition to Ulysses Every Day! This Bloomsday will be my 22nd at the Rosenbach! This year, from now through our virtual Bloomsday, my Collections teammates and I will be sharing with you some illustrated stories about the …
Meet Facilities Manager Christina Doe
Christina Doe is The Rosenbach’s multifaceted, multitalented facilities manager. Her path to The Rosenbach is varied and fascinating. After graduating from Moore College of Art and Design with a degree in 2D art, specializing in drawing and printmaking, she worked in a Philadelphia art supply store. Here, she not only created the window displays but …
Seeing Shakespeare on his Birthday
This blog post was written by Andrew White Because we don’t know when Shakespeare was born, only that he was christened on April 26, 1564, we agree to assume he was born a few days before that on April 23rd. We have a better idea of what Shakespeare looked like. Both the engraving in the First …
The Rosenbach Family in the 1926 Epidemic
In March of 1926, the Rosenbach brothers had made it. Abe was traveling back and forth to England for high profile and wealthy clients, brokering deals for some of the rarest and most historically important books in the Western Hemisphere. Phil ran the retail side of the business, managing two stores filled with highly provenanced …
What Is A Registrar?
Meet Jobi Zink and her dog Bourbon! Jobi has been the registrar at The Rosenbach since 2014. What is a registrar you ask? “Well,” says Jobi, “much like a university registrar keeps all the files on all the students a museum registrar keeps all the files on all the museum’s objects.” Jobi studied art history …