Enrich your family's spring break by participating in an array of exciting events that encourage visitors to explore, learn, and celebrate the seasonal holidays—all without ever leaving the Museum!

Former High School Intern Alexandra describes her interest in Byzantine art.

Curator Joanne Pillsbury highlights a number of the spectacular objects featured in Golden Kingdoms that reveal the prominence of women of power in the ancient Americas.

Assistant Archivist in Museum Archives Celia Hartmann discusses processing the records of the twentieth century shoe designer Bernice Shaftan.

Senior Associate for Archival Processing Celia Hartmann discusses some of the intricacies of processing the Charles James Papers.

Teen Advisory Group Members Sumura and Tiffany share an original short story about the subjects of two paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Assistant Museum Librarian Dan Lipcan and former intern Laura Mittendorfer mark the 70th anniversary of the ceremony in which The Met awarded an honorary fellowship for life to then-General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Conservator Jean-François de Lapérouse discusses his approach to applying the techniques of digital imaging in order to learn more about the provenance of ceramic objects in The Met's collection of Islamic art.

Former High School Intern Nicole discusses depictions of wealth and poverty in a selection of works in The Met collection.

Assistant Research Curator of Chinese Art Shi-yee Liu discusses the artists of the Epigraphic School—the final chapter of the calligraphic evolution of dynasty China.

Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden)

...numerous masterpieces of woodblock printing, many of which are nearly impossible to find in such fine condition today...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Master of the Barbo Missal

"...The Met takes a major step in presenting masterpieces of Judaica..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Man Ray

This remarkably seductive album of photogravures is an exquisite example of his legacy as America's greatest Surrealist photographer...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Hendrick Avercamp

"...His finished drawings are much rarer, and the present one is among his best of an imaginary landscape..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page

...these very pistols spectacularly confirmed that the French were then unsurpassed in their mastery of the gunmaker's art...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Irving Penn

"The resulting portraits–landmarks in the history of twentieth century photography–are a brilliant update of some 300 years’ interest by artists in producing pictures of small tradesmen, or petit métiers."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Master of the Furies

When this compelling, transformative statuette of Saint Sebastian became available, it was an opportunity not to be missed, as the Museum has nothing comparable...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

This is one of the most elegant and best-preserved porphyry vessels to have survived from classical antiquity...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Cartier

The journey of the emerald in this brooch from Colombia, where it originated in its natural state, to seventeenth-century India and back to New York underscores the abiding and universal attraction of great gems.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

With the daring amalgamation of the whimsical, exotic, and macabre, the sculptural details on this ewer brilliantly show off the distinctive Portuguese interpretation of Renaissance style.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.