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Press Release

Metropolitan Museum Establishes International Office in Geneva

editorial

Senet and Twenty Squares: Two Board Games Played by Ancient Egyptians

July 19, 2017

By Danielle Zwang

What is your favorite board game? Senet was a very popular board game in ancient Egypt.

Press Release

Il Metropolitan Museum of Art presenta la prima grande mostra americana sull'arte senese del Trecento

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Reinstalling Art of Native America: Three Perspectives

June 25, 2021

By Cristina Balloffet Carr, Sylvia Yount, Marie Watt, and Alexandra Barlow

Explore Dream Catcher by Marie Watt (Seneca Nation), featured in the exhibition Art of Native America.

editorial

Remixing the Future

February 18, 2022

By Sean Zhang

The author and illustrator John Jennings discusses Seneca Village, Afrofuturism, and writing The Met's first graphic novella.

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Introducing New York to the Cultural Wealth of Medieval West Africa

June 4, 2020

By Oumy Mbaye and Mouhamet Traoré

Two recent fellows from Senegal reflect on their time at The Met conducting outreach for the exhibition Sahel.

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Marking International Provenance Research Day at The Met

April 8

By Lucian Simmons, Maya Muratov, Christine E. Brennan, Ria Breed, Anne Dunn-Vaturi, Michael Seymour, and Mary Chan

Five case studies for select recent acquisitions demonstrate the varied and complex nature of provenance research at The Met.

Exhibition

Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room

Ongoing

Seneca Village—a vibrant nineteenth-century community of predominantly Black landowners and tenants—flourished in an area just west of The Met, in what is now Central Park. By the 1850s, the village comprised some fifty homes, three churches, multi…