Golia describes Schwarzman collections and exhibitions
Golia details the Schwarzman Building's collections, including 350,000 rare books, nearly half a million maps, and the Polonsky Exhibition of Treasures. She highlights exhibitions like 'Declaring America' and 'Wepa' on Puerto Rican comics.
Our mission is to support and generate research scholarship and thought.
As with LPA and Schomburg, the only requirement to engage with our tens of millions of materials is a library card.
Our collections span formats, books, archives, maps, photos, print, art, magazines and newspapers, recorded sound, video, and we even preserve digital materials like emails.
Our world-class archival collections draw researchers studying the American Revolution, the Civil War, New York City social history, the history of publishing and journalism, and L.A.
LGBTQ plus history, among many other areas of study.
The collection includes 350,000 rare books with historical volumes like the first Gutenberg Bible to reach the Americas, alongside nearly half a million maps and atlases spanning the 16th to the 21st centuries.
We house one of the country's great print and photography collections and an expansive periodicals collection where recently arrived New Yorkers can find daily issues of dozens of foreign newspapers.
While the New York Public Library's primary audience is New Yorkers, the Schwarzman Building also doubles as one of New York City's top tourist attractions.
Through our exhibitions and displays, we seek to immerse visitors from around the country and the world in the wonders of libraries and give them the opportunity to see our collections come to life.
Our beloved permanent exhibition, the Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library's Treasures, features a rotating showcase of some of the most extraordinary items from our holdings.
The items in this exhibition tell the stories of people, places, and moments spanning 4,000 years.
From the emergence of the written word to the present day, visitors will encounter manuscripts,
artworks, letters, still and moving images, and recordings.
Everything from the original Winnie the Pooh dolls to Malcolm X's briefcase.
To commemorate America's 250th birthday this year, the Schwarzman Building opened Declaring America, 1776 and Beyond.
A three-gallery exhibition which unpacks the complex, diverse, and powerful stories of the American Revolution from 1776 to today.
We recently concluded New York, an exhibition which explored often overlooked histories of Middle Eastern and North African immigration to New York City from the late 19th century to the present.
And we recently closed Weipa, an exhibition that highlighted the breathtaking contributions of Puerto Ricans to the world of comics.
Wepa.