The Busch-Reisinger Museum’s Study Room provides public access to the Museum’s many works of art that are light-sensitive, and therefore cannot regularly be displayed in the galleries.

These works date primarily from 1880 to the present, and include:

*prints, drawings, and photographs
*portfolios, multiples, artists’ books, and sketchbooks
*textiles, graphic design, and decorative arts
*historical publications, rare books, documentary and archival materials

Strengths of the Study Room collection include Austrian Secession, Expressionism, Dada, "New Objectivity", Bauhaus, Constructivism, Fluxus and multiple art, and German photography, drawing, and prints since 1950. The Study Room also houses the Lyonel Feininger Archive, the Walter Gropius Archive, and the United States’ most comprehensive collection of multiples by Joseph Beuys.

Visiting
These works comprise a large and integral part of the Museum’s collections, and all visitors are invited to include the Study Room in their visit to the Museum. The Study Room offers a unusual and rewarding experience, in which any visitor may request artwork from storage without appointment. Drop-in visitors might spend five minutes with a work by a favorite artist, or several hours exploring the collection in depth.

Resources
The room offers tables and easels for viewing art in natural light, and an intimate setting for research, contemplation, or sketching. An index to the Study Room collection, a small library of reference books, a changing display of sculpture and decorative arts, and information on Museum holdings and history are also available.

Hours
Open to the public Tuesday - Friday, 2 - 4:45pm. By appointment for individuals and classes at other times, (617) 495-2317.

Location
3rd floor, Otto Hall. Enter via the staircase near the reading area in the Busch-Reisinger Museum Galleries (2nd floor), or via elevator to 3rd floor.

Mongan Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs