The Morgan Library & Museum surveys the astonishing life and career of its founding director, Belle da Costa Greene.

Known as the “soul of the Morgan,” Belle da Costa Greene established the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection and lived as a “passing” Black woman in the early 20th century.

Until she retired in 1948, Greene presided over and built, together with both Morgans, the incomparable collection of books, manuscripts and art that became today’s Morgan Library & Museum.