Today we visited the Morgan Library and Museum at 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street. This collection was started by Pierpont Morgan, one of the greatest financiers of America in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The collection includes drawing, prints, printed books and bindings, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, music manuscripts and Ancient near Eastern Seals and tablets. We did a quick tour and took the guided tour of his library. My daughter and I are both librarians and my wife is interested in books. If allowed we could have spent days looking over the collection!
We then walked over to the UN complex at 1st Avenue between 42nd and 46th Streets. We made it in time to get into the building but missed out on the guided tour. While there we saw an exhibit on the Holocaust. Just across thes treet is the Swords into Plughshares Monument.
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