The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library closed in May for a renovation that will overhaul the building’s mechanical systems and refurbish its iconic architectural features: the translucent marble, ...

On Jan. 27, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library unveiled its spring exhibit “Revisiting the Past — Imagining the Future.” Featuring artifacts spanning centuries and cultures, the exhibit is ...

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s newest exhibit, “Art, Protest, and the Archives,” probes the relationship and tensions between aesthetics and dissent. The exhibit premiered on Aug. 4 ...

Following commencement ceremonies in May 2015, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will close its iconic building for 16 months to undergo a major renovation that will replace its ...

NEW HAVEN -- The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, with its sublime marble slabs and glass-enclosed stacks, has gone from garish to grand. When the six-story library debuted on Wall Street in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library holds one of 26 known surviving copies of the first ...

New Haven marked Independence Day with a different spin from the martial display in Washington: Three hundred people gathered at Beinecke Library for a public reading of the Declaration of ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Today we’re Cruisin’ Connecticut to the largest library for rare books. The Beinecke Library opened in 1963, and attracts more than 150,000 visitors a year. With over 1 ...

Yale graduate William S. “Bill” Beinecke — who helped establish the Yale School of Management — died Sunday morning, the Yale Daily News reports. He was 103. “Beinecke was the son of Frederick W.

The claim: The fire suppression system of Yale's Beinecke Library causes all oxygen to leave the building, suffocating anyone inside, to preserve its rare books. Yale’s world-renowned Beinecke Library ...

A man walked into a library. It was a Wednesday morning in June. The man was E. Forbes Smiley III, a rare map dealer, forty-nine years old, tall and stocky. The library was the Beinecke Rare Book and ...

Aaron Douglas, “Prodigal Son” (artwork for God’s Trombones), gouache on paper (courtesy James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, Yale Collection of American ...