🆓 Every Friday evening from 5:45–7:45 at the Morgan Library & Museum, live jazz is included with your admission (which you can also get for free if you reserve in advance on the website). 🎺 This Friday, Brazilian and Spanish fusion jazz will be brought to you by the BeBimBop trio in the Morgan's Gilbert Court. Make a night of it by visiting the Morgan Café where you can order wine, beer and even afternoon tea. Mains on the menu range from Everything-spiced Crab Cobb salad to Braised Beef and Pumpkin One Pot Stew. 📚 The Morgan Library & Museum is a museum and research library in Murray Hill that was once the private library of the banker J. P. Morgan (yes, THAT J.P. Morgan 💰). Containing 350,000 objects, the collection includes original Babylonian letters, volumes of renaissance-era books, the only remaining page from the original Scarlet Letter, an unpublished Chopin waltz and an original Beethoven Opus 96. I was sent back to my days as an archival librarian (I had A LOT of jobs) in the solid steel book vault that holds Morgan’s medieval and Renaissance original manuscript collection. ☕️ The Morgan Library & Museum was developed by librarian Belle da Costa Greene - a black woman (TEA: she was white passing enough to change her last name after her parents’ split during the Gilded Age and Jim Crow Era to pass as ‘ambiguously Italian’) introduced to J.P. Morgan by his nephew. The museum highlights Greene’s work collecting famed and rare art and manuscripts from around the world. Described by the New York Times as a "force of persuasion and intelligence," Greene’s life as a single, working woman long before it became acceptable - let alone legal - is inspiring. 🪳 The rest of the museum has 3 floors of its own history, a garden, and a quarterly rotation of exhibits. An exploration of the life and works of Franz Kafka (The Metamorphosis) is here until April 13.