لوح ثلاثي عليه رسم البشارة (مذبح كنيسة ميرود)

Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High sits down with How to Read Medieval Art author Wendy Stein to learn some of the meaning behind art of the Middle Ages and uncover the value of looking closely.

The Monuments Men were a group of men and women who risked their lives to preserve Europe's cultural treasures during World War II. Archivists Melissa Bowling and James Moske tell their story using a wealth of material in the Metropolitan's archives.

Eighty-five years ago today, on June 12, 1925, The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased a collection of medieval sculpture and architectural fragments from George Grey Barnard (1863–1938), a prominent American sculptor and collector. This acquisition formed the nucleus of what would become The Cloisters, the branch of the Museum located in Northern Manhattan and devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe.