Private Tour and Wine Reception at the Rosenbach Museum

Join Philadelphia’s Young Alumni for a private tour, director’s talk, and wine reception at the

Rosenbach Museum

2008 DeLancey Place, Philadelphia

on

 Wednesday, March 26, 2008 from 6-8:30 PM

The evening will begin with a wine reception from 6-7 PM, followed by a director’s talk and

several small-group tours of the Museum.

The price is $28 for members of alumni clubs

and $32 for non-members

Kindly sign-up by March 18, 2008.

Dubbed the “best museum you’ve never been to” by Philadelphia Magazine in 2007, the Rosenbach is at once a historic house, museum and research library with highlights including the original, handwritten manuscript of James Joyce’s Ulysses, first books published by an African American (Phillis Wheatley) and a woman in America (Anne Bradstreet), the notes and outlines by Bram Stoker for Dracula, a re-creation of the Greenwich living room occupied by poet Marianne Moore, and the works of Maurice Sendak, creator of Where the Wild Things Are.

The tour includes an overview of the museum and a slice of early-to-mid-twentieth century Philadelphia history featuring the Rosenbach brothers – rare book and antique dealers with a wide and eclectic circle of friends.

The director of the museum, Derick Dreher, received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his PhD in art history from Yale University.

For more information, see the Rosenbach Museum Website or see a recent article on the Rosenbach by Curtis Sittenfeld.