Gallery Talk

Exhibition Tour—A Textile Designer's Perspective in Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800

In this exhibition, join a textile designer to consider how textile design ideas moved across continents and developed in sometimes surprising ways as a result of trade, changing taste, and cross-cultural exchange during the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Note: Limited to 25 people; tickets are distributed 15 minutes prior to the tour at the program meeting point.

Assistive listening devices are available.Assistive listening devices are available.

Free with Museum admission, though tickets are required

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Explore the Met with Adult Programs

Free Programs for Adults

Download the current Free Programs for Adults brochure (PDF), which includes gallery talks, exhibition tours, lectures, Sunday at the Met events, and art-making programs. You can also find up-to-date program listings on our online calendar.

Friday Evening Gallery Events

Friday Evening Gallery Events

Bring your friends and chart your own course through the galleries as you participate in activities that connect you with works of art.

Events at The Cloisters

Garden Tour at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens

Enjoy collection highlight tours, garden tours, gallery talks, and other programs at The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in northern Manhattan devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe.