The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
So, he’s holding a copper plate that would have been covered in a waxy kind of
Art has a unique way of bringing complicated facts to life. What can it tell us about the multiple histories of two continents over several centuries? Visit the American Wing.
Too often those in positions of power have only included others who look, live, love
Get a handle on palm-sized ephemera in The Met collection.
Few inventions have changed the world the way paper has.
Artifacts similar to this carved wooden board have been found among women’s burials
Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturist of The Met Cloisters, discusses medlar and its significance in medieval gardens.
Well into November, long after other autumnal fruits have fallen to the ground, the
Gallery 206 The construction of small, square, pagoda-like shrines appears to have
Explore The Met’s excavations at Nishapur, a city in northeastern Iran. Related material is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in galleries 452 and 453.
ninth and thirteenth centuries, at Nishapur’s peak, its population is believed to have
Join Akili Tommasino, Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, artist Julie Mehretu, and artist Fred Wilson, for a virtual tour of Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now
Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now which examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have
archaeologists, and while details of the animal head differ from object to object—some have
Eight different creatures inhabit the seven blocks of this enchanting carved archway. All but two come from the imagination, merging parts of different animals found in nature. Beginning at far left, we see a manticore, a fantastic creature with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion
view at The Met Cloisters in Gallery 07 This intricately carved arch is said to have
