The Met acknowledges the significance and complexities of the human remains that we steward.
more than 150-year history, and it is now responsible for the care of some 1.5 million
This room has been installed with architectural elements from a Retiring Room in the North Family Dwelling at Mount Lebanon, New York. Mount Lebanon was a religious community established by the United Society of Believers in the Second Appearing of Christ, also known as the „Shakers.“ The Retiring Room served as both a bedroom and place to retire to „in silence, for the space of half an hour, and labor for a sense of the gospel, before attending meeting.“
nineteenth century, the United States‘ population grew from approximately five million
Get a handle on palm-sized ephemera in The Met collection.
Transcript CAMILLE DUNGY: The Met has two million works of art, and one-and-a-half
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Skip to main content Read sample Art for the Millions: American Culture and
View the curatorial themes of the exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion.
women’s clothes of the twenties" and "a woman walking around in a dress made of three million
All three grew up or trained or lived at various points in their lives in Harlem, and participated in the community in important ways.
the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.) evokes the migration of more than a million
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The Van Rensselaer Hall was one of the largest and most elaborate rooms built in prerevolutionary America. The rare hand-painted English wallpaper and the magnificently carved woodwork create an elegant American Wing gallery.
house for the vast patroonship of Rensselaerswyck, which consisted of almost one million
The technique of water-based painting dates to ancient times, and belongs to the history of many cultures in the world.
Commercially available from the 1830s, it became a Victorian bestseller (more than 11 million
textile
By 1680: More than seventy-six-million guilders worth of silver has been shipped
