Events at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (all upcoming events)

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

Шедевры Музея (Museum Highlights in Russian)

Guided Tour

Экскурсия познакомит вас с энциклопедической коллекцией музея. Вы откроете для себя избранные произведения искусства народов мира, созданные в разные исторические эпохи. Экскурсия поможет вам самостоятельно ориентироваться среди музейных экспонатов.
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

Museum Highlights

Guided Tour

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, 1:30–2:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Fashion in Art

Guided Tour

This cross-cultural guided tour focuses on the ways in which artists have used clothing to express identity and influence from the sixth century b.c. through modern times.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 1:45–2:45 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Robert Lehman Collection: Renaissance to Impressionism

Guided Tour

A view of one of America's greatest private collections, spanning a seven-hundred-year period, from the Renaissance to the mid-twentieth century.

Friday, May 24, 1:45–2:45 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Arts of Ancient Egypt

Guided Tour

This tour provides an overview of the Metropolitan's collection of Egyptian art, one of the finest and most comprehensive outside Egypt.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 2:00–3:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Parent-Child Workshops (Ages 3–6): Session 9

Membership Class for Children

This class is designed to provide adults and children with an opportunity to discover art in a studio setting as well as in the Museum's galleries.

Friday, May 24, 2:00–3:00 p.m.

For Family/Dual Members and above | Fee: $480 for the twelve-session semester

Arts of the Islamic World

Guided Tour

A tour of the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia explores the Metropolitan Museum's collection of Islamic art, a collection that is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world.

Friday, May 24, 2:15–3:15 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Museum Highlights

Guided Tour

Friday, May 24, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Arts of Ancient Greece and Rome

Guided Tour

This tour of the Greek and Roman Art galleries provides an introduction to five thousand years of art from the early Cycladic period in the fifth millennium b.c. to the time of Constantine in the fourth century a.d.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 2:45–3:45 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Modern Art

Guided Tour

Discover the Museum's exceptional collection of modern art—including painting and sculpture—through works representing the major stylistic movements from 1900 to the present.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 3:00–4:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Highlights of The Cloisters Collection

Guided Tour at The Cloisters

Museum-trained volunteers offer daily highlights tours of The Cloisters museum and gardens to introduce visitors to the collection as a whole or to specific departments or themes.

Friday, May 24, 3:00–4:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

Guided Tour

An exploration of the nineteenth-century French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, focusing on the artists' stylistic innovations and the social milieu in which they worked.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 3:15–4:15 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Museum Highlights

Guided Tour

Friday, May 24, 3:30–4:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Art Afternoons (Ages 8–10): Session 7

Membership Class for Children

Students explore their own creativity while discovering art in a studio setting.

Friday, May 24, 3:45–5:00 p.m.

For Family/Dual Members and above | Fee: $300 for the twelve-session semester

Arts of Ancient Egypt

Guided Tour

This tour provides an overview of the Metropolitan's collection of Egyptian art, one of the finest and most comprehensive outside Egypt.

Friday, May 24, 2013, 4:00–5:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

ETHEL and Friends

Performance

ETHEL, a modern classical quartet, will perform at the Great Hall Balcony Bar on Friday and Saturday evenings throughout the year.

Friday, May 24, 5:00–8:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Capturing Costume

Drop-in Drawing

Draw inspiration from original works of art. Join talented art instructors in the galleries for informal sketching fun.

Friday, May 24, 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Controlling the Environment: Himalayan Tangka Paintings

Gallery Talk

See how painters in the Nepalese and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist tradition expressed their concern with controlling the Himalayan environment through images of powerful deities and protectors.

Friday, May 24, 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

The Civil War and American Art

Membership Exhibition Preview

Supporting, Sustaining, Family/Dual, and Individual Members are invited to preview the exhibition The Civil War and American Art before it opens to the public.

Saturday, May 25, 9:30 a.m.–8:15 p.m.

For Supporting, Sustaining, Family/Dual, and Individual Members | Free with Museum Membership

Art Trek

Family Program

Be an art explorer! Take a new voyage around the globe every time you visit the Met. For families with children ages 5–12.

Saturday, May 25, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Art, Religion, and the Environment in Ancient Greece

Gallery Talk

Picture the roadsides, sacred paths, and outdoor sanctuaries where the Greeks placed works of art to connect themselves to the divinities they worshipped.

Saturday, May 25, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Start with Art at the Met

Family Program

Sketch, explore, listen to stories, and discover the meaning of art!

Saturday, May 25, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Meet the Author: Mary Pope Osborne

Family Program at The Cloisters

Magic Tree House series author Mary Pope Osborne will read from her book Blizzard of the Blue Moon, which features our very own Cloisters unicorn.

Saturday, May 25, 11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Free with Museum admission, but seating is limited

In Search of the Unicorn

Family Workshop at The Cloisters

Imagine a world where magical unicorns roam the woods and fierce dragons lurk in every cave! Learn about these and other fantastic animals in the Middle Ages and hear the stories medieval people told about them. Make your own magical creature to take home.

Saturday, May 25, 12:30–1:30 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.

Saturday, May 25, 1:00–2:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Meet the Author: Mary Pope Osborne

Family Program at The Cloisters

Magic Tree House series author Mary Pope Osborne will read from her book Blizzard of the Blue Moon, which features our very own Cloisters unicorn.

Saturday, May 25, 2:00–2:45 p.m.

Free with Museum admission, but seating is limited

Art Trek

Family Program

Be an art explorer! Take a new voyage around the globe every time you visit the Met. For families with children ages 5–12.

Saturday, May 25, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Start with Art at the Met

Family Program

Sketch, explore, listen to stories, and discover the meaning of art!

Saturday, May 25, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

In Search of the Unicorn

Family Workshop at The Cloisters

Saturday, May 25, 3:00–4:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

El mundo del unicornio (The World of the Unicorn)

La Experiencia Medieval: Talleres Bilingües e Educativos para Familias

Vengan a Los Claustros a conocer el ilustre animal que es el unicornio. Aprendan sobre los poderes mágicos que se la atribuían a esta bestia mitológica.

Saturday, May 25, 3:00–4:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

ETHEL and Friends

Performance

ETHEL, a modern classical quartet, will perform at the Great Hall Balcony Bar on Friday and Saturday evenings throughout the year.

Saturday, May 25, 5:00–8:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

The Civil War and American Art

Membership Exhibition Preview

Supporting, Sustaining, Family/Dual, and Individual Members are invited to preview the exhibition The Civil War and American Art before it opens to the public.

Sunday, May 26, 9:30 a.m.–4:15 p.m.

For Supporting, Sustaining, Family/Dual, and Individual Members | Free with Museum Membership

Geology, Transcendentalism, and American Landscape Painting

Gallery Talk

Investigate how mid-nineteenth-century American painters responded to the expanding field of geology and its effects on society, including the spread of scientific knowledge among the public, the associated moral lessons and religious connotations, and its impact on western expansion and tourism.

Sunday, May 26, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

In Search of the Unicorn

Family Workshop at The Cloisters

Sunday, May 26, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Gardens of The Cloisters

Guided Tour at The Cloisters

Sunday, May 26, 1:00–2:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

In Search of the Unicorn

Family Workshop at The Cloisters

Sunday, May 26, 2:00–3:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Start with Art at the Met Plus—The Many Faces (and Arms) of Southeast Asia

Family Program

Meet gods, goddesses, and superheroes—even some with multiple arms to destroy the forces of evil.

Sunday, May 26, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Art Trek Plus—The Sound of Bamboo

Family Program

Discover the natural world of Japan through art, then hear the shakuhachi flute.

Sunday, May 26, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Highlights of The Cloisters Collection

Guided Tour at The Cloisters

Museum-trained volunteers offer daily highlights tours of The Cloisters museum and gardens to introduce visitors to the collection as a whole or to specific departments or themes.

Sunday, May 26, 3:00–4:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

El mundo del unicornio (The World of the Unicorn)

La Experiencia Medieval: Talleres Bilingües e Educativos para Familias

Vengan a Los Claustros a conocer el ilustre animal que es el unicornio. Aprendan sobre los poderes mágicos que se la atribuían a esta bestia mitológica.

Sunday, May 26, 3:00–4:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Charles H. Tally Holiday Monday Family Programs

Family Program

Take a day to play at the Met and enjoy fun discussion and sketching!

Monday, May 27, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Charles H. Tally Holiday Monday Family Programs

Family Program

Take a day to play at the Met and enjoy fun discussion and sketching!

Monday, May 27, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Gardens of The Cloisters

Guided Tour at The Cloisters

Monday, May 27, 1:00–2:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Charles H. Tally Holiday Monday Family Programs

Family Program

Take a day to play at the Met and enjoy fun discussion and sketching!

Monday, May 27, 1:15–2:15 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Charles H. Tally Holiday Monday Family Programs

Family Program

Take a day to play at the Met and enjoy fun discussion and sketching!

Monday, May 27, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Highlights of The Cloisters Collection

Guided Tour at The Cloisters

Museum-trained volunteers offer daily highlights tours of The Cloisters museum and gardens to introduce visitors to the collection as a whole or to specific departments or themes.

Monday, May 27, 3:00–4:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Museum Highlights

Guided Tour

Tuesday, May 28, 10:15–11:15 a.m.

Free with Museum admission

Great Paintings

Guided Tour

This tour focuses on masterworks from many time periods and cultures in order to introduce visitors to the global nature of the Museum's rich painting collections.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 10:30–11:30 a.m.

Free with Museum admission

Toddler Storytime in Nolen Library

Family Program

Look, listen, and have fun with picture books in Nolen Library. For families with children ages 18 months–3 years.

Tuesday, May 28, 10:30–11:00 a.m.

Free; Museum admission not required