As the decade mellowed under the lulling influence of the dot-com boom and the end of the Cold War, the art of the mid-1990s reflected both the newly global situation and the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual.

Aliza Sena, associate coordinator for Digital Learning, asks Associate Curator Isabel Stünkel and Conservator Ann Heywood to answer a letter addressed to William the Hippo.

Curator Diana Craig Patch and Research Associate Kei Yamamoto highlight jewelry from the famed Haraga Treasure now on view in the Met's permanent galleries and in the exhibition Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom.

Did you know there are tons of very small ancient Egyptian hippos at The Met? Use the clues in this post and meet four tiny hippos today!