Name: Patron Week: A Night in the Archives
Start: 2026-04-23T18:30
End: 2026-04-23T20:00
Location: Education Center

For members

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Held on Thu, Apr 23, 6:30–8:00 p.m.

Education Center, Floor 1

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

Audrey Hepburn and Alfred H. Barr Jr. at the exhibition Picasso: 75th Anniversary. 1957. Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Photo: Barry Kramer

Patron Program eligibility

Not eligible Contributor

Eligible: Benefactor

Eligible: Leader

For any questions, contact us.

Join MoMA’s head of Archives Services Michelle Harvey and research assistant Christina Eliopoulos for a light reception and an insider’s look at some of the Museum’s most remarkable—and rarely seen—archival treasures.

Highlights will include a personal gift from Pablo Picasso to founding director Alfred H. Barr, a hidden drawing by Henri Matisse, ephemera connected to Frida Kahlo, and MoMA’s first guest book—signed by many illustrious visitors.

Please enter through the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building at 4 W 54th Street. Advance registration is required and capacity is limited.

Accessibility
Assisted listening capabilities available
FM assistive-listening devices (headsets and neck loops for T-coil compatibility) are available for sound amplification.

Sign language interpretation available
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation is available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.

This event is part of Patron Program Events.

Licensing

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).

MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at [email protected]. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit https://www.moma.org/research/circulating-film.

If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected].