{{Short description|Art museum, library and mausoleum at Brown University}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2023}} thumb|The Annmary Brown Memorial at 21 Brown Street. [[File:Annmary Brown Hawkins.jpg|thumb|Annmary Brown Hawkins, painted by Seymour Guy]] '''Annmary Brown Memorial''' is an art museum, library and mausoleum at Brown University.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Mitchell |first=Martha |year=1993 |title=Annmary Brown Memorial |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Brunoniana |publisher=Brown University Library |location=Providence, RI |url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=A0370 |accessdate=December 6, 2007 |asin=B0006P9F3C }}</ref> It is located at 21 Brown Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is one of six libraries comprising the University Library system.
==History== The building, designed by architect Norman Isham,<ref name=AboutAMB>{{Cite web|url=https://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/about/amb/|title = Brown University Library | Annmary Brown Memorial}}</ref> was completed in 1907 in the shape of a granite temple with bronze doors at the request of General Rush Hawkins.<ref name=Marshall80>Marshall, Traute M. ''Art Museums Plus: Cultural Excursions in New England''. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2009: 80. {{ISBN|978-1-58465-621-0}}</ref> Hawkins intended it to house his collection, including incunabula, and to serve as a memorial to his wife, Annmary Brown (1837–1903).<ref name=Marshall80/> The Hawkinses are interred in a crypt at the building.
Margaret Bingham Stillwell, curator of the collection from 1917 to 1953, was a renowned bibliographer who also wrote histories of the library.<ref>Stillwell, Margaret B. ''The Annmary Brown Memorial: A Descriptive Essay'' (Providence: The Annmary Brown Memorial, 1925).</ref><ref>Stillwell, Margaret B. ''General Hawkins as He Revealed Himself to His Librarian, Margaret Bingham Stillwell'' (Providence: 1923).</ref><ref>Stillwell, Margaret B. ''The Annmary Brown Memorial: A Booklover’s Shrine'' (Providence: Privately Printed, 1940).</ref>
==Modern history == The museum merged with Brown University in 1948. In 1990, the collection was moved to the John Hay Library of Brown University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Medieval_Studies/brown/|title = Home | Medieval Studies}}</ref>
Today, the museum features a wide array of art from around the world.<ref name=AboutAMB/> The museum is normally open on Monday through Friday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. during the academic year, from Labor Day through Memorial Day.<ref name=AboutAMB />
==See also== *List of museums in Rhode Island *List of libraries in Rhode Island
==Further reading== *{{cite news|title=Life of a university library – it's an open book|first=Charles |last=Hillinger|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ODEiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AacFAAAAIBAJ&dq=annmary%20brown%20memorial&pg=4453%2C5722997|date=September 22, 1986|accessdate=March 12, 2012}} * {{cite journal | last=Soules | first=Rebecca | title='Nothing must be changed', Rush Hawkins' lost memorial museum | journal=Museum History Journal | publisher=Informa UK Limited | volume=10 | issue=1 | date=January 2, 2017 | issn=1936-9816 | doi=10.1080/19369816.2017.1257847 | pages=15–28| s2cid=165112769 }}
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==External links== *{{official|https://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/about/amb/}} {{commons category|Annmary Brown Memorial}}
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