November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

Join us and Plain Wrapper Press Redux publisher, Mark Fischer, at a Members Event centered on Uncle Umberto’s Orchard by Frederic Tuten.

In this course, we’ll explore how great poets across the centuries have used the sonnet. Authors will likely include William Shakespeare, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Keats, Christina Rosetti, John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Terrance Hayes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wanda Coleman, William Butler Yeats, and Percy Shelley. This course will be enjoyable for both people who are new to reading poetry and aficionados alike. 

This is the third and final session of this series of The Body in the Library Book Club. In this series we celebrate the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance by rediscovering talented mystery writers from the era, and then engage with recent mystery novels set in early 20th-century Harlem. During this session we will be focusing on Nekesa Afia’s, Dead Dead Girls (2021)

In this hands-on printing workshop, you will use a tabletop press to create your own, personal copies of U.S. founding documents–such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights—complemented by a selection of important engravings from the Rosenbach’s holdings. 

In this tour, we’ll connect historical treasures of the Rosenbach collections to the contemporary creative field of Book Arts.

This two-hour workshop, co-led by yogi Liza Seltzer and Rosenbach John C. Haas Director Kelsey Scouten Bates, will introduce you to de Acosta’s work and legacy and invite you to take a deep dive into what it means to be truly authentic.

Esteemed civil rights scholar john a. powell offers a framework for building connection across differences through the practice of bridging.

This tour will explore the global, cross-cultural connections forged via the thriving tea market in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s, as well as the role tea drinking played in the cultural history of the British Empire. 

• September 22, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

• November 3, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

• February 23, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

• May 18, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

In this four-part workshop series, explore the creativity and connection that live within the art of Hebrew lettering.  

• February 20, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• February 27, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• March 6, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• March 13, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• March 20, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• March 27, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• April 3, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• April 10, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• April 17, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• April 24, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• May 1, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• May 8, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• May 15, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• May 22, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• May 29, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• June 5, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

This immersive weekly course will help readers explore (and enjoy) the intricacies, enigmas and hilarities of Ulysses. First time readers of the novel will find many resources for understanding this challenging work.

In this five-week online class, we will spend the first two weeks reading Huckleberry Finn. For our third meeting, we will explore the legacy of Huck and Jim in African American culture with a series of short readings from authors such as Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, and John Keene. We will spend the final two weeks reading Everett’s James.

February 24, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
March 3, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
March 10, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
March 17, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
March 24, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join us on a new Biblioventure with a special subscription-only show on Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Send a secret love note in this hands-on workshop exploring the custom of manipulating a letter so it forms its own elaborate sealed envelope–to be opened only by its intended recipient!

Join Rosenbach Assistant Curator Bryn Michelson-Ziegler and the Young Friends of the Rosenbach to learn how to make your own buttonhole stitch book.

November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

In this class we will map a chronological route through these two texts from 1818 to today. Shelley will have us rethinking our positions as human beings in a world where the giddy rate of technological advancement far exceeds our potential to maintain even the slightest semblance of balance.  

Our class will examine Austen’s simple-seeming language carefully. Having told us that “A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can,” we will consider the knowledge this novel conceals beneath its sunny un-Gothic surface. 

Informed by the Rosenbach’s Langston Hughes and Alaine Locke holdings, during the four sessions of this course, we will read and discuss works by four prominent Harlem Renaissance writers and intelligentsia: Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Give yourself the gift of an hour on your mat, moving mindfully while exploring themes from this popular Rumi poem, including self-awareness, acceptance and gratitude. The gentle flow sequence will be suitable for all levels. ..

On the eve of the presidential inauguration, join the Rosenbach Museum & Library for a consideration of the development of the office of the presidency over the last 249 years. View rare books and manuscripts documenting presidential history from George Washington to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, discuss how the powers of the executive office fit into the separation of powers as outlined in the U.S. Constitution, and reflect on the evolving role of the presidency in the wider work of the federal government and American national life. The tour will include time for reflection and dialogue among participants about the executive office and civic participation.  

In the world of antiquity and collecting, how do experts identify the subtle (or glaring!) difference between authenticity and forgery? In this tour, we’ll explore this question with a wide range of objects in the Rosenbach’s collection. We’ll look at some of Shakespeare’s greatest works, a mug that once belonged to George Washington, a manuscript draft by Edgar Allan Poe, and in this special edition of the popular Fakes & Forgeries tour, we will spend additional time examining several Shakespeare forgeries by William Henry Ireland.  

• January 23, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

• February 6, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

• February 20, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

• March 6, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

• March 20, 2025 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

In this course we’ll consider how Dracula highlights the fears and anxieties of the culture that produced it and discover how this vampire story is just as much about themes of difference and otherness, race and ethnicity, and sexuality and gender, issues still relevant for contemporary readers.

November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

November 16, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
December 14, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
January 11, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
February 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
March 15, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
April 19, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
May 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
June 21, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Our Sherlock Mondays Biblioventure was such a success, we’ve decided to continue exploring the Sherlockian canon with Sherlock Monthly. Every month, we’ll focus on one Sherlock Holmes adventure in the order they were first published.

• November 13, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• December 11, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• January 8, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• February 12, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• March 19, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

• April 9, 2025 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

In this course, which welcomes first-time Melville readers and Moby-Dick obsessives alike, our discussions will range from the novel’s most thunderous, epic heights to its quirkiest, crudest jokes.

This course will explore the richness and depth of this remarkable text, with close consideration of the work’s language, action, characterization, worldview, and more.