Events at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (next 30 days)

American Art

Guided Tour

This tour introduces visitors to the rich tradition of American art, from its mid-seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the early twentieth-century panoply of subjects and styles.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Arts of China

Guided Tour

This tour introduces visitors to five thousand years of Chinese art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, sculpture, and decorative arts.

Friday, May 24, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Musical Instruments: East and West

Guided Tour

An overview of the Museum's extensive collection of European, American, and non-Western instruments from prehistory to the present.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 12:15–1:15 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

The Cradle of Civilization: Art of the Ancient Near East

Guided Tour

Discover the extraordinary artistic achievements of the diverse cultures of the ancient Near East from 8000 b.c. to the rise of Islam in the mid-seventh century a.d.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 12:15–1:15 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Old Master Paintings

Guided Tour

A chronological overview of the Museum's distinguished collection of European paintings from the thirteenth through the eighteenth century.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 12:30–1:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Great Rooms: European Decorative Arts

Guided Tour

A survey of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Western European interiors and decorative arts, including architectural elements, artworks, and furnishings.

Friday, May 24, 1:00–2:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Gardens of The Cloisters

Guided Tour at The Cloisters

Offered Tuesdays through Sundays through the end of October, these tours of the gardens at The Cloisters—the branch of the Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—include horticultural, architectural, and historical information.

Friday, May 24, 1:00–2:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Gods, Spirits, and Ancestors: Exploring the Art of Oceania

Guided Tour

Tour the Metropolitan's dramatic galleries for Oceanic art, which feature more than four hundred works of sacred sculpture and decorative arts.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 1:15–2:15 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Arts of Japan

Guided Tour

A presentation of the splendors of Japanese art at the Metropolitan Museum from the Neolithic period to the present.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 1:15–2:15 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

博物館精華 (Museum Highlights in Chinese/Mandarin)

Guided Tour

此導覽包括觀察博物館內的精品，這些精品是博物館從各地、各時期所收集不同文化的藝術作品。並鼓勵遊客自已觀察博物館的精品.
Discover the Museum's encyclopedic collection on this tour, which focuses on a selection of works of art representing different cultures and time periods and encourages visitors to explore the Museum on their own.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 1:30–2:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission