Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall St.
La Jolla, California
858-454-5872
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Located in La Jolla Downtown Village, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library's art exhibition program began in the early 1920s, and has earned a reputation as one of the outstanding venues for art in San Diego.
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library holds about eight exhibitions each year in the Main Gallery and four smaller ones in the Rotunda, both traditional settings that have showcased and wonderfully accommodated art that is sometimes far beyond traditional: limited edition artists' books, site-specific installations, photography, sculpture, mixed media, architecture, calligraphy, as well as imaginative and eclectic collections.
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library offers a wealth of resources on the subjects of music and art unique to this region. The library is open to the public without charge, although borrowing privileges are limited to members, who pay a modest annual fee.
The Athenaeum library's collections include more than 14,000 monographs that consist of art books, music books, and young people's books in art and music.
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library has over 9,000 art books in its collection, which includes books on art techniques, world art, catalogues raisonnes, artists’ biographies, and historical surveys.
Music books feature composer and performer biographies, histories of the different eras of Western classical music, texts on theory and different musical instruments, and stylistic surveys.
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library sponsors an ongoing series of popular evening lectures in arts appreciation, including topics in classical music and jazz, visual art, art history, and architecture.
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