The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Purchase, Diana Barrett and Bob Vila Gift, 2024 (2024.320).
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Gift of Katherine Beinecke Michel, 2023 (2023.176.2) © 2021 Nina Jordan
Conservator Caitlin Mahony consults with Chuna McIntyre, a Yup’ik dancer, on her approach to conserving a Yup’ik mask.
Art, New York, The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift
This exhibition focuses on the main turning points in the cultural history of Kyoto from ancient to modern times.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and
This special display of instruments made by three generations of the Sax family marks the bicentenary of the birth of Adolphe Sax. Rare saxophones, brass instruments, and an exquisite ivory clarinet are among the twenty-six instruments selected to showcase the inventions and innovations of this important family.
The bicentenary of Adolphe Sax’s birth also marks the 125th anniversary of the gift
The Arms and Armor department collects, preserves, researches, publishes, and exhibits the art of the armorer, swordsmith, and gunmaker.
In 1913, the Museum received as a gift the outstanding collection of European arms
Stanley Spencer’s King’s Cookham Rise came to the studio to be examined and treated in preparation for an exhibition.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1981
Artist Sheila Hicks reflects on The Organ of Mary, a prayer book by Ethiopian scribe Baselyos in this episode of The Artist Project.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Melvin Bedrick Gift, 1989 (1989.29) © Sheila
Assistant Curator Ashley Dunn explores the Museum’s deep collection of prints by Eugène Delacroix, a number of which are currently on view in the exhibitions Devotion to Drawing and Delacroix.
Cohen Gift, 2004 (2004.197). Center: Théâtre Italien, 1821.
Braunschweig, Germany, 1889−Los Angeles, 1945
While setting out the terms of the gift, Scheyer requested that a catalogue be published
