Contact

maglibinfo@mag.rochester.edu
585.276.8999

Hours

Monday–Wednesday: By appointment
Thursday & Friday: 12–5 pm

The museum’s archival material may be accessed by researchers by arrangement via the Charlotte Whitney Allen Library. Currently digitized items can be accessed at the New York Heritage website. The accessible collections of the archives include:

  • Exhibition catalogues and files
  • Index of artists who have exhibited at MAG from 1913 to the present 
  • MAG publications and annual reports
  • Files from the various departments of MAG 
  • Scrapbooks created by MAG Staff
  • Posters of past MAG events
  • Photographic material of artists and MAG events
  • Audio and video tapes
  • Oral histories from MAG staff and artists
  • Fritz Trautmann notebooks

Due to MAG’s central role in the arts in Rochester, the archives collection also includes information on many local artists and arts organizations, including the: