Popular Performing Arts Library and Museum in America
An assortment of dance artifacts, music materials, archives of recorded sounds, audio and video tapes and books and manuscripts related to performing arts can be found in a performing arts library and museum. This kind of facility that houses a collection of various materials related to a type of art that involves the presence of live people and human figures is one of the places that attracts individuals in the field of performing arts or are prone to dance, singing and theatres.
Performing arts library and museum can be found in limited numbers. Some of this kind is maintained by a private individual or institution. Other research and archive institutions are funded and maintained by local government units.
There are notable performing arts library and museum that can be found in various parts of the world. In the United States, the noteworthy are the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum was established by Russell Hartley, a collector of performance arts items including dance artifacts, theatre collection and musical materials. Mr. Hartley was also a costume designer and dancer.
San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum is committed to providing resource materials of performing arts. Its collection includes documentaries, books and artifacts. It collects and preserves the items for exhibition.
Hartley passed on his collection in his passing to the Archives of Performing Arts, an institution he created that housed an extensive collection of books and other circulating and on-circulating materials related to performing arts. The legacy of Hartley is on display at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum located at 410 Van Ness Avenue, 4th floor Veterans Building, San Francisco.
Another famous performing arts library and museum is the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The library contains various materials related to performing arts. The items in the archives of the library now numbers at more than nine million.
Aside from being a circulating and research institution, the New York Public Library also exhibits art materials with themes in performing arts. The research collections of the library are divided into four units: The Jerome Robbins Dance Division, the Music Division, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound and the Billy Rose Theatre Collection.
San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts are among the largest institutions with extensive collections of fine arts in America.
