Lincoln Center Library & Museum of the Performing Arts

  • Client Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts, Inc.
  • Expertise Cultural
  • Region North America
  • Location New York, New York, United States

Project Facts
  • Completion Year 1965
  • Size Site Area: 14 acres Building Gross Area: 283,000 square feet
  • Collaborators
    Amman & Whitney Bolt Beranek & Newman Eero Saarinen & Associates Alexander Calder Syska Hennessy Group
Project Facts
  • Completion Year 1965
  • Size Site Area: 14 acres Building Gross Area: 283,000 square feet
  • Collaborators
    Amman & Whitney Bolt Beranek & Newman Eero Saarinen & Associates Alexander Calder Syska Hennessy Group

Designed by Gordon Bunshaft, the Library & Museum of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in New York houses a spectacular collection of 50,000 records, 60,000 musical scores, and more than 50,000 books on the performing arts. The building contains general reading rooms, exhibition space, radio and television studios, conference and rare book rooms, an auditorium, and a children’s library and museum.

The Library & Museum shares the same building as the Vivian Beaumont Theater. The entrances to the Library & Museum are supported by giant square concrete columns that form a peristyle around the core of the theater structure, a temple-like pavilion overlooking a reflecting pool with a Henry Moore sculpture.

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