Left Bank: The Visionary Women Behind James Joyce and Ulysses Film Screening

Date / Time

  • June 9, 2023
    6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

In anticipation for Bloomsday 2023, join us for a screening of the new documentary Left Bank: The Visionary Women Behind James Joyce and Ulysses, which seeks to investigates the important and largely unacknowledged role of the notable women in the realization of James Joyce’s famed masterpiece. 

FREE! Welcome America Open House 

Date / Time

  • June 24, 2023
    12:00 pm - 6:00 pm

As part of Philadelphia’s Welcome America festival, The Rosenbach will is opening its doors for free. Those visiting on June 24 will get to explore an exhibition on presidential history and our museum founders’ collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Sunflowers and Peacocks: A Wilde-ly Aesthetic Bibliococktails 

Date / Time

  • June 28, 2023
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Join us for a bibliococktails that celebrates the Aesthetic Movement, an artistic style that spanned the second half of the nineteenth century, which aimed to produce beautiful “art for art’s sake” rather than for moral or didactic purposes. Enjoy peacock and sunflower themed cocktails inspired by two of the major decorative motifs of the movement, don your finest dandy apparel, pin on a green carnation and raise a glass to the most famous of aesthetes, Oscar Wilde.  

Sherlock Mondays

Date / Time

  • September 18, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • September 25, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • October 2, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • October 9, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • October 16, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • October 23, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • October 30, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • November 6, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • November 13, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • November 20, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • November 27, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • December 4, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • December 11, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • December 18, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • January 8, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • January 15, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • January 22, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • January 29, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • February 5, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • February 12, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • February 19, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • February 26, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • March 4, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • March 11, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • March 18, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • March 25, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • April 1, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • April 8, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • April 15, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • April 22, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Rosenbach’s new Biblioventure series will focus on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. We’re taking a deep-dive into the adventures of the world’s first consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant, Dr. John Watson, as they battle the criminal forces of London.