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Today: July 3, 2009
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Parent-Child Workshops (Ages 3 through 6) Summer Semester (Open to Members and non-Members)
Children's art programs for Members, beginning at the Family/Dual ($190) level, offer children the unique experience of learning about art and creating their own works in a studio setting or in the Museum's galleries.Non-Members have the special opportunity to participate in these classes during the summer semester. Parent-Child Workshops are designed to provide adults and children with an opportunity to discover the Museum's collection and explore the processes of art making. All gallery visits will focus on visual art concepts: line, shape, color, pattern, texture, balance, and form. Activities will include painting, collage, sculpting, building, viewing works from the Museum's collection, and listening to related stories and fables.
This session is sold out.
Fee: $432 for the 12-session semester or $36 per class
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
 
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Summer Intern Highlight Tours
Join one of our talented summer interns for a tour that highlights particular works in the Museum's encyclopedic collection.
Free with Museum admission
10:15 a.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages
This exhibition celebrates the unique role of drawings in the artistic production of the Middle Ages, bringing together some 60 maps, artists’ sketchbooks, and decorated manuscripts that illuminate the critical place of graphic images in the creative and intellectual life of the Middle Ages.
Melanie Holcomb, Associate Curator, Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Free with Museum admission
11:00 a.m., Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs, 2nd floor
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Parent-Child Workshops (Ages 3 through 6) Summer Semester (Open to Members and non-Members)
Children's art programs for Members, beginning at the Family/Dual ($190) level, offer children the unique experience of learning about art and creating their own works in a studio setting or in the Museum's galleries.Non-Members have the special opportunity to participate in these classes during the summer semester. Parent-Child Workshops are designed to provide adults and children with an opportunity to discover the Museum's collection and explore the processes of art making. All gallery visits will focus on visual art concepts: line, shape, color, pattern, texture, balance, and form. Activities will include painting, collage, sculpting, building, viewing works from the Museum's collection, and listening to related stories and fables. This session is sold out.
Fee: $432 for the 12-session semester or $36 per class
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
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Summer Intern Special Topic Tour—Power in Portrayal: Monuments of Egyptian Pharaohs
Join one of our talented summer interns for a special topic tour, which focuses on a specific theme relating to the diverse collections of the Metropolitan Museum.Investigates how rulers of the Ancient world, from Mentuhotep II, to Hatshepsut, to Akhenaten, used representation in art to make powerful political and religious statements.
Stacey Ingram
Free with Museum admission
12:00 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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Garden Tours at The Cloisters
Free with Museum admission
1:00 p.m., The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
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Summer Intern Special Topic Tour—War: What Is It Good For?
Join one of our talented summer interns for a special topic tour, which focuses on a specific theme relating to the diverse collections of the Metropolitan Museum.War and violence have inspired some of the world's artists to make stunning masterpieces. This tour examines some of the Museum's most impressive works, spanning many different cultures and time periods, to show that true beauty can come from the ugliness of war.
Richard Carroll
Free with Museum admission
1:30 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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Collection Highlights at The Cloisters
Free with Museum admission
3:00 p.m., The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
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Summer Intern Highlight Tours
Join one of our talented summer interns for a tour that highlights particular works in the Museum's encyclopedic collection.
Free with Museum admission
3:15 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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Summer Intern Highlight Tours
Join one of our talented summer interns for a tour that highlights particular works in the Museum's encyclopedic collection.
Free with Museum admission
7:15 p.m., Tours Sign, Great Hall
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Please note that all of the events listed above are subject to change. For additional information, consult one of our staff members at an Information Desk upon arrival at the Museum. Events are free with Museum admission unless otherwise noted.
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