The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Tuesday–Sunday: 9:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m.
Closed Monday (except Holiday Mondays), Thanksgiving Day, and December 25

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Event Highlights: May 17–19

Posted on Thursday, May 16, 2013

Celebrating The Cloisters

Posted on Friday, May 10, 2013, by Thomas P. Campbell

The Cloisters marks its seventy-fifth anniversary this year. Since its opening on May 14, 1938, it has become a treasured landmark, celebrated for both its extraordinary setting and its world-class collection of medieval art and architecture.

Featured Publication: Photography and the American Civil War

Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2013, by Nadja Hansen and Hilary Becker

Photography was invented just twenty years before the American Civil War began. In many ways the war—its documentation, its soldiers, its battlefields—was the arena of the camera's debut in America.