Rosenbach Museum and Library

Best of Philly 2007: Museum You've Never Been To

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, just south of Rittenhouse Square on Delancey Place, features a collection as eclectic as brothers Philip and Abraham Rosenbach were in life. The globe-trotting collectors’ tastes ran from the sublime to the odd, so at their former home you’ll find original illustrations from Alice in Wonderland alongside James Joyce’s death mask. Book lovers can pore over the original handwritten manuscripts of Charles Dickens and Joseph Conrad. And be sure to set your watch to the elaborate 18th-century alabaster clock on the second floor, with a snake’s tongue indicating the hour. The timepiece was made by Marie Antoinette’s clockmaker.

2008-2010 DeLancey Place
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
215-732-1600
www.rosenbach.org