Research from Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Resource
Designed as an integral feature of the Museum, the gardens have been a major attraction of The Cloisters since its opening in 1938, enhancing both the setting in which the Museum's collection of medieval art is displayed and the visitor's understanding of medieval life.
Study and Storage Center
Antonio Ratti Textile Center provides the environmental conditions necessary for the long-term preservation of textile works of art at The Met, as well as study and research facilities for Museum staff and the general public.
Essays
Curators, scholars, and communities work together to reimagine the Museum’s Byzantine galleries.
Andrea Myers Achi, Earnestine Qiu, Quinn R. Bolte, Mary Kupelian, and Suzana DeRosa-Farag
June 12
Conservators have embarked on a multiyear study and treatment of two large, 16th-century sculptural groups from the chapel of the castle of Biron in Dordogne, France.
May 19
Orthodox Christian writers and artists reflect on works from the Africa & Byzantium exhibition.
Jaime Rall
May 3, 2024
As The Met increasingly explores cross-cultural connections, some icons, like this Virgin and Child, are significant for their explicit links between Christian communities thought to be very distanced from one another.
Helen C. Evans
December 21, 2023
With the support of curatorial fellows from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the department has catalogued its great collection of carvings in ivory and bone.
Nicole D. Pulichene and Scott Miller
March 1, 2022