In 1922—long before the days of TV—the Metropolitan Museum produced a short movie called A Visit to the Armor Galleries. It's a fantasy about a suit of armor that comes to life, leaves its display in the Museum, and rides a horse through Central Park.

The people who made A Visit to the Armor Galleries way back when used it to teach us what it was like to wear a suit of steel. Today, more than eighty years later, we still think it’s a great way to demonstrate armor in action. When you visit New York, you won't actually see knights riding around in Central Park, but you can easily imagine the world of knights, castles, and tournaments by coming to the Met to experience the pageantry of the Arms and Armor collection. Right now, you can see 15th-century armor in an early 20th-century movie sent to you in the 21st century via the World Wide Web.