The Museum offers hundreds of events and programs each month—including lectures, films, tours, family activities, and more. The following listings are just a sample of our upcoming programs.
Symposium
Michelangelo and His World in the 1490s
Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Show location on map
Free with Museum admission
Join international scholars to explore the pivotal decade of the 1490s in Florence and the formation and evolution of the young Michelangelo. Prompted by the recent loan by the French Republic to the Metropolitan Museum of the fragmentary marble statue Young Archer that many scholars attribute to Michelangelo, this two-day symposium will provide occasion to reflect on the sculpture and the confluence of dramatic forces that shaped Renaissance Florence. See the schedules for May 18 and 19.
Exhibition-Related Gallery Talk
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
Friday, May 18, 7:00–8:00 p.m.
Gallery 899 (The Tisch Galleries) Show location on map
Free with Museum admission
In this gallery talk by lecturers Mary Clare F. McKinley, Margaret Samu, and Richard Turnbull, encounter standout examples of modern art in this exhibition and gain insight into the profound influence that members of the Stein family had on the making and collecting of art in the first half of the twentieth century.
Gallery Talk at The Cloisters
Spring, Courtship, and Medieval Youth Culture
Saturday, May 19, 12:00–1:00 p.m. and 2:00–3:00 p.m.
The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
Free with Museum admission
Guest lecturer Michelle Hearne Arthur discusses spring, courtship, and medieval youth culture at The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of the Museum in northern Manhattan devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. See all upcoming Gallery Talks at The Cloisters.
Family Workshop at The Cloisters
Columns and Capitals
Saturday, May 19, 1:00–2:00 p.m.
The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
Free with Museum admission
Medieval columns and capitals throughout The Cloisters feature carvings of ravenous beasts, funny hybrid creatures, and delicate plants and flowers. In this family program led by Christina De León, come see some of these amazing sculptures and design one of your own to take home. See all upcoming Family Workshops at The Cloisters.
Program for Families with Children Ages 3–7
Start with Art at the Met Plus—Land and Art of the Nile
Sunday, May 20, 2:30–3:30 p.m.
Carson Family Hall, Uris Center for Education Show location on map
Free with Museum admission
Make your own sparkling broad collar inspired by the rich and beautiful treasures of ancient Egypt. See all upcoming Start with Art at the Met programs.
Sunday at the Met
Ashkelon: Seaport of the Philistines
Sunday, May 20, 3:00–4:30 p.m.
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Show location on map
Free with Museum admission
In this lecture by Lawrence E. Stager, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, and director and curator, Semitic Museum, Harvard University, explores the origins, daily life, religion, and language of the Philistines. The Philistines were a cosmopolitan people who occupied the great Mediterranean seaport of Ashkelon for nearly six hundred years, until its destruction and their exile by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in 604 b.c.
In twenty-five seasons of excavations, the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon has uncovered much new evidence about the mysterious Philistines, including a rare example of one of the ancient marketplaces that linked land routes from the southeast to a web of international Mediterranean merchants. This Sunday at the Met is made possible by the Helen Diller Family.
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