The Leon Levy Foundation Archives and Catalogues Program
The Foundation’s archives and catalogues program helps arts and humanities institutions care for and use the important contents of their archives and store rooms, with the ultimate goal of making them more available to historians, writers, film-makers, and other scholars. Among the projects that have received support are:

The Morgan Library and Museum
The Morgan Library and Museum received a three-year grant to upgrade the catalogue of its important collection of historic and literary manuscripts, including works by Gibbons, Dickens, Austen, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Bronte sisters.

The New York Philharmonic

© NY Philharmonic Archives

The New York Philharmonic began a major, multi-year program to catalogue, describe, and digitize the artifacts, programs, scores, photographs, letters, and other papers it has saved and acquired since its founding in 1842. Together with its recordings, these objects and papers – more than 8 million items – provide a history not only of the orchestra but also of the many conductors and artists who performed with it.





The Jewish Museum embarked on a multi-year project to research and document the art objects from Islamic lands in its collection, encompassing more than 1,000 works on paper, in metal, textiles, ceramic, and in horn or wood from across the globe, especially Palestine, Syria, the Ottoman Empire, and Persia.

Poets House
Poets House will use a two-year grant to complete the online cataloguing of its collection of books, literary journals, chapbooks, and other publications that together form the largest, most comprehensive poetry trove available to the public in open stacks anywhere in the U.S.

Roundabout Theatre
Roundabout Theatre will, for the first time, begin assembling and processing an archive of its 41-year existence. Roundabout’s history includes productions like "A View from the Bridge," "Cabaret," and "Twelve Angry Men" and performances by actors like Lynn Redgrave, Jason Robards, and Christopher Plummer.

Center for Khmer Studies/National Museum of Cambodia
The National Museum of Cambodia began a multi-year inventory and cataloguing of the 14,000 objects in the museum’s collection, known as the world’s finest collection of Khmer cultural material, including stone, bronze and wood sculptures, textiles, ceramics, and ethnographic material.

The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library will use its grant to process and preserve several small collections in its Dorot Jewish Division that illuminate the history of Jewish immigrants in New York City in the late 19th and early 20th Century.

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