en-USArts & Entertainment, Museumshttp://www.metmuseum.org/feeds/images/met_podcast_logo.jpghttp://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/american-art?eid=R145_%7b0BEB8915-2D16-458B-832D-0870DC8BC5E5%7d_20130521120000http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/american-art?eid=R145_%7b0BEB8915-2D16-458B-832D-0870DC8BC5E5%7d_20130521120000<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​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.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 12:00&ndash;1:00 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/arts-of-china?eid=R145_%7bBD6DC2CB-47FF-4108-ABCC-8441E84156DB%7d_20130521120000http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/arts-of-china?eid=R145_%7bBD6DC2CB-47FF-4108-ABCC-8441E84156DB%7d_20130521120000<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​This tour introduces visitors to five thousand years of Chinese art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, sculpture, and decorative arts.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Tuesday, May 21, 12:00&ndash;1:00 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/musical-instruments-east-and-west?eid=R145_%7bB33A51AA-7250-402C-9FC0-8A302D14AD06%7d_20130521121500http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/musical-instruments-east-and-west?eid=R145_%7bB33A51AA-7250-402C-9FC0-8A302D14AD06%7d_20130521121500<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​An overview of the Museum's extensive collection of European, American, and non-Western instruments from prehistory to the present.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 12:15&ndash;1:15 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/cradle-of-civilization?eid=R145_%7b6AAA0929-74B0-4203-A234-6D712366F84D%7d_20130521121500http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/cradle-of-civilization?eid=R145_%7b6AAA0929-74B0-4203-A234-6D712366F84D%7d_20130521121500<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​Discover the extraordinary artistic achievements of the diverse cultures of the ancient Near East from 8000 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span> to the rise of Islam in the mid-seventh century <span class="small-caps">a.d.</span><p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 12:15&ndash;1:15 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/old-master-paintings?eid=R145_%7b9BD83C09-D51A-462C-8BB4-633B3AFBD44B%7d_20130521123000http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/old-master-paintings?eid=R145_%7b9BD83C09-D51A-462C-8BB4-633B3AFBD44B%7d_20130521123000<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​A chronological overview of the Museum's distinguished collection of European paintings from the thirteenth through the eighteenth century.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 12:30&ndash;1:30 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/american-historic-interiors?eid=R109_%7b9E31413E-9AC9-4869-89AE-ADBF80821067%7d_20130521124500http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/american-historic-interiors?eid=R109_%7b9E31413E-9AC9-4869-89AE-ADBF80821067%7d_20130521124500<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​This voyage through the history and styles of American domestic spaces combines architectural elements, furnishings, silver, glass and other decorative and utilitarian objects.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 12:45&ndash;1:45 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/great-rooms-european-decorative-arts?eid=R046_%7b1FF4F144-6903-47E8-865E-07D6E918D7EF%7d_20130521130000http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/great-rooms-european-decorative-arts?eid=R046_%7b1FF4F144-6903-47E8-865E-07D6E918D7EF%7d_20130521130000<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​A survey of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Western European interiors and decorative arts, including architectural elements, artworks, and furnishings.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Tuesday, May 21, 1:00&ndash;2:00 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/events-at-the-cloisters/guided-tours/gardens-of-the-cloisters?eid=R018_%7bB9416110-4BF0-4E5F-B48A-4E0E4C101B93%7d_20130521130000http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/events-at-the-cloisters/guided-tours/gardens-of-the-cloisters?eid=R018_%7bB9416110-4BF0-4E5F-B48A-4E0E4C101B93%7d_20130521130000<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour at The Cloisters</p>​Offered Tuesdays through Sundays through the end of October, these tours of The Cloisters' medieval gardens include horticultural, architectural, and historical information.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Tuesday, May 21, 1:00&ndash;2:00 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/art-of-oceania?eid=R024_%7b81836A61-A59D-44B7-82A4-2F5D1CF4D317%7d_20130521131500http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/art-of-oceania?eid=R024_%7b81836A61-A59D-44B7-82A4-2F5D1CF4D317%7d_20130521131500<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​Tour the Metropolitan's dramatic galleries for Oceanic art, which feature more than four hundred works of sacred sculpture and decorative arts.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 1:15&ndash;2:15 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/arts-of-japan?eid=R145_%7bAD0141EB-9EBA-4409-AA3B-03E5CDE995F7%7d_20130521131500http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/arts-of-japan?eid=R145_%7bAD0141EB-9EBA-4409-AA3B-03E5CDE995F7%7d_20130521131500<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​A presentation of the splendors of Japanese art at the Metropolitan Museum from the Neolithic period to the present.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 1:15&ndash;2:15 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>