The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
drawings and prints, dating from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, have
First explored in 1925, La Venta has provided some of the most important archaeological finds from ancient Mesoamerica.
Recent excavations have established that small villages in the immediate area were
Suit up as we undress the complex legacy of linen.
You have a word for “King’s wife.”
C. Griffith Mann, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, introduces the exhibition Treasures and Talismans: Rings from the Griffin Collection and discusses the process of refurbishing the Glass Gallery for the installation.
Inside the museum, we have opened the new exhibition Treasures and Talismans: Rings
Internships for graduate students in The Met’s Department of Objects Conservation, a dynamic and diverse department with over twenty-five full-time conservators. Interns work alongside and learn from conservators under whose supervision they carry out in-depth treatment on a broad range of materials. These internships are unpaid.
Program Information Conservation training programs around the world have various
Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturalist of The Met Cloisters, discusses the origins of the Date palm and its significance in medieval art and life.
Date palms have provided an important food, an intoxicating liquor, a sweetener,
and deposited as a huaca, a Quechua and Aymara term for a sacred being, and may have
The Conservation and Scientific Research fellows work on a 12-month research project that makes use of the The Met collection and/or resources.
Fellows have access to The Met collection, staff, libraries, research facilities,
Conservators Glenn Petersen and Mecka Baumeister and Jan G. Reeder, former consulting curator for the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Costume Institute, examine the mystery behind and debunk the myths around Pierre Yantorny and his work.
; Gift of Miss Mercedes de Acosta, 1953 (2009.300.1179 a-f) A number of myths have
It was during this period that the first identifiable villages developed in the region, where people farmed the land using irrigation and fished the rivers and sea.
mainly female, decorated with painted or appliqué ornament and lizardlike heads, have
