Event Details

Date:
Thursday, Mar 6, 2025

Time:
4:00 PM EST

Location:
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street
New York, NY 10022

Join us for a private tour of The Grolier Club, led by Eve Kahn, Journalist and Independent Scholar. Founded in 1884, the Grolier Club is America's oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and is a unique library, museum and clubhouse. It is headquartered in a 1917 Georgian Revival building designed by club member and noted architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. The public galleries and members-only spaces contain examples of paintings and decorative arts by European and American artists and craftspeople including Mary Beale, Francois Flameng, William Page, Edward Penfield, Charles Summers, Edith Woodman Burroughs, Frederick MacMonnies, Emile Gallé and Thomas Commeraw. There is a Dutch Colonial-style tavern and a soaring Neoclassical research library with 100,000 volumes that shed light on how the printed word and image have disseminated information for millennia. Keen-eyed visitors will spot a blowfish and a secret stairway. Current exhibitions in the public galleries during the March 6 tour focus on Mark Twain's work as a humorist (among the highlights are Twain's typewriter, eyeglasses, and necktie) and the history of New York City's guidebooks for tourists. 

More on the The Grolier Club can be found here: https://www.grolierclub.org/

Registration will be open to members only until February 12. After that, available spots will be made available to non-members.

Appraisers Association of America members receive 1 Continuing Education (CE) Credit.

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