The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Themes and Cultures

Explore in-depth features on select Met galleries, past exhibitions, and a variety of other topics:

		Shipwreck: An Ancient Sea Trade Game Explore the geography, culture, natural resources, and artistic production of Late Bronze Age civilizations along the eastern Mediterranean trade route. Developed in collaboration with the Institute for Nautical Archaeology (Texas A&M University).

		China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 AD A Resource for Teachers and Students Explore exceptional works of art from forty-six institutions in the People's Republic of China. Includes links and references to works of art in the Metropolitan's permanent collection, relevant literary references, maps, and details about how certain objects were crafted.

		Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

		Artists View New York Experience "New York stories" through the Museum's permanent collection.

		The Unicorn Tapestries Find out about the elusive, magical unicorn depicted in The Cloisters' beloved tapestries.

		In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: A Journey through the Met to the Land of the Great Khan

		Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio

		American Folk Art

		Ancient Near Eastern Art: New Light on an Assyrian Palace

		Art and Oracle: A Scholarly Resource of African Art and Rituals of Divination

		Arts of Korea

		Celebrating The American Wing: American Portraits

		Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids

		Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era

		The Glory of Byzantium

		The Greek Galleries

		Master Hand: Individuality and Creativity among Yoruba Sculptors

		The Christmas Story

		Esther Before Ahasuerus Examine a painting of the Old Testament heroine Queen Esther by the seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman who managed to make a living exclusively as an artist.

Also, be sure to visit Special Exhibitions for information on past, present, and future exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum.

Program Support

Explore & Learn is made possible by the Uris Brothers Foundation Endowment and the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.

Plan Your Visit

Museum Hours
Monday: Closed (Except Met Holiday Mondays)
Tuesday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Sunday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

See Plan Your Visit for more information, including directions.

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