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Exploring the Galleries: A Met Museum Presents Itinerary

Posted on Friday, July 25, 2014, by Meryl Cates, Press Officer, Met Museum Presents

Met Museum Presents provides an itinerary for visitors to see ten of the Met's galleries that have inspired dazzling site-specific performances.

Now at the Met

Making a Scene in Paris in the Age of Louis XIV

Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, by Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman, Department of European Paintings

Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, introduces Charles Le Brun's monumental portrait of Everhard Jabach and his family.

In Season

Successful Secale

Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2014, by Caleb Leech, Managing Horticulturist, The Cloisters Museum and Gardens

Managing Horticulturist Caleb Leech discusses the evolution of rye (Secale cereale) from a humble foodstuff to a staple of the medieval European diet.

Of Note

Instruments of Macabre Origin

Posted on Monday, July 7, 2014, by Ken Moore, Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge, Department of Musical Instruments

Ken Moore, Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of the Department of Musical Instruments, highlights the use of human remains in musical instruments in Africa and Tibet.

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How Curators and Conservators Look at a Tapestry

Sarah Mallory, Research Assistant, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts; Cristina Carr, Conservator, Department of Textile Conservation; and Elizabeth Cleland, Associate Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Posted: Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Members of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts and the Department of Textile Conservation discuss the close-knit work of curators and conservators in preparing the tapestry objects soon to be on view in the exhibition Examining Opulence: A Set of Renaissance Tapestry Cushions.
In Season

Gallery Talks by The Cloisters Summer College Interns: July 29 through August 1

Leslie Bussis Tait, Museum Educator, The Cloisters
Posted: Thursday, July 24, 2014

Museum Educator Leslie Bussis Tait announces a series of gallery talks led by the 2014 Cloisters summer interns.
Digital Underground

Met + Parsons Museum Accessibility Collaboration Workshop

Don Undeen, Senior Manager of Media Lab, Digital Media; and Rebecca McGinnis, Senior Museum Educator, Access and Community Programs
Posted: Monday, July 21, 2014

MediaLab Senior Manager Don Undeen and Senior Museum Educator Rebecca McGinnis discuss the Met's recent workshop, which investigated new technologies, standards, and approaches to accessibility in a museum environment.
In Circulation

Conservation Treatment of a Seventeenth-Century Topographic Book

Sophia Kramer, Assistant Book Conservator, Thomas J. Watson Library; and Andrijana Sajic, Volunteer, Thomas J. Watson Library
Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Assistant Book Conservator Sophia Kramer and Watson Library Volunteer Andrijana Sajic discuss the process for conserving this seventeenth-century book from the Department of Drawings and Prints.
Of Note

Missionaries Making Music: Building Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown's Collection

Sally B. Brown, Visiting Committee Co-chair, Department of Musical Instruments
Posted: Monday, July 28, 2014

Guest author Sally Brown—the granddaughter of Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown—highlights the importance of her family's relationship with missionaries across the world in growing what was to become the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments.
Teen Blog

Interviewing Sculptures at the Met

Floraine, Former High School Intern
Posted: Friday, July 25, 2014

Former High School Intern Floraine "interviews" three sculptures in the Metropolitan's collection.
Travel Blog

The Islands of Christiansø and Frederiksø

Stephen Manzi, Chief Development Officer
Posted: Monday, June 30, 2014

Chief Development Officer Stephen Manzi describes the group's brief visit to the Danish islands of Christiansø and Frederiksø.