The New Uris Center for Education
Director Philippe de Montebello offers a glimpse of the Metropolitan's state-of-the-art Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education, opening October 23.
Episode Date: August 13, 2007
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Episode Transcript
Philippe de Montebello: Abraham Lincoln called education "the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in." And ever since the Metropolitan Museum was founded in 1870, education has been central to its mission.
I am the Met's Director, Philippe de Montebello.
Today the Metropolitan is a truly encyclopedic museum, with collections of more than two million works of art, spanning five thousand years of civilization from around the globe. With the opening of the new Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education on October 23, 2007—with splendidly re-designed and re-equipped facilities—we will provide a new gateway to learning about art that will transform Museum experiences for students, teachers, teenagers, families, scholars, and all visitors—you—from today into the future.
Visitors to the new Uris Center for Education will enter through the majestic and welcoming Diane W. Burke Hall, an orientation area with projection screens and other dynamic displays previewing what is on view in the galleries and the programming that is available that day. The Metropolitan Museum offers more than 20,000 programs to the public each year.
Within the center, visitors will find: The Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, seating up to 125 people; a studio for creating art; a unique art study room, where curators, educators, conservators, and scientists can teach students and the public with art from the Museum's collections;
