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The Morgan Library and Museum is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, Frankenstein, with their exhibition, “It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200.” Now through January 27, 2019, fans of the Monster can view materials that include portions of the original manuscript, historic scientific instruments, comic books, memorabilia, and movie posters.

Among those items is the Frankenstein six-sheet from the 1931 film starring Boris Karloff, on loan from the private collection of Metropolis CEO Stephen Fishler. It can be viewed in public for the first time in nearly 20 years. “The poster was on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2000 and I’m thrilled to share it again,” Fishler said. “The Morgan Library’s Frankenstein exhibit is the perfect medium to display the world’s greatest movie poster.”

The poster, a stone litho print created to advertise the horror classic is “gorgeous, it’s one-of-a-kind, and its historical significance is without peer,” Fishler continued. “This is the world’s most valuable movie poster, plain and simple.”

The Morgan Library and Museum is located at 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York City and is just a short walk from Metropolis Gallery at 36 West 37th Street.