Karpeles Manuscript Library

The Karpeles Manuscript Library is a private collection of more than a million manuscripts and documents in the United States, the largest such collection in the world.It was founded in the early 1980s by California real estate magnates David and Marsha Karpeles, with the goal of stimulating interest in learning, especially in children, and to make the collection more accessible, is distributed between several Karpeles museums across the US, each located in a historic building, plus "mini-museums" in schools and office buildings. Items are rotated between museums quarterly, and each of the museums presents a daily general exhibit and one or more special scheduled exhibits throughout the year.