Sunday, December 9, 2007

Don't Be a Scrooge — Celebrate the Holidays at the Morgan!



Join The Morgan Library & Museum for its annual family celebration today, Sunday, December 9th from 2 to 5 p.m., celebrating the exhibitions Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol and Painted with Words: Vincent van Gogh's Letters to Émile Bernard.

Activities include a paper doll art workshop of Victorian fashions, cotillion dancing with live music, and a marionette show of Winter Fairy Tales by the Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre. Meet costumed characters Vincent van Gogh, Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present too!

All events are included with admission to the museum ($12 adults, kids under 12 free). The museum is located at Madison Avenue and E. 36th Street. Pictured: John Leech, Third Visitor or the Ghost of Christmas Present, original watercolor illustration for Charles Dickens's, Christmas Carol (detail), first edition, 1843, The Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased by Pierpont Morgan; MA 97.