In May 2015, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library closed to students and the public.
Today, after a 16-month renovation, it reopens.
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When you’re updating something as innately spectacular as the Beinecke, a prime measure of success is how unchanged things feel when you’re done. Does its silvery outer geometry, newly cleaned and sealed, still beckon and pique? Does its golden inner glow, passed through stone and glass, still answer and relieve?
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Yes. Yes they do.
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
121 Wall St, New Haven (map)
Mon 10am-7pm, Tues-Thurs 9am-7pm, Fri 9am-5pm, Sat (exhibitions only) noon-5pm
(203) 432-2977
www.beinecke.library.yale.edu
Written and photographed by Dan Mims.
