Tag: Metropolitan Museum of Art
State of Beer @ the American Museum of Natural History
Dr. Elinor Garely - special to eTN- June 8, 2019 20:04Many museums have upped their game over the last few years, adding gourmet restaurants and boutique shopping (i.e., MOMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art); however, not many are offering visitors an ... Read More
NYC Winter Show: A treasure trove for hotel interior designers
Dr. Elinor Garely - special to eTN- January 31, 2019 23:56If you love beautiful things like jewelry, sculpture, lamps, art and antiques, there is no better place to get your “fix” of fabulous furnishings and jewels than at the annual ... Read More
Louvre 10.2 million, New York Metropolitan Museum 7.4 million visitors in 2018
Juergen T Steinmetz- January 5, 2019 10:56The “Heavenly Bodies” explored the links between fashion and the Catholic Church and attracted 1.7 million people to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum had a record ... Read More
Met Museum’s European paintings galleries will reopen on May 23
editor- May 23, 2013 05:45The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s galleries for its world-renowned collection of European Old Master paintings from the 13th through the early 19th century will reopen on May 23 after an ... Read More
Met Museum to return two Khmer sculptures to Cambodia
editor- May 4, 2013 02:10The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced today that it will return to the Kingdom of Cambodia two 10th-century Koh Ker stone statues of “Kneeling Attendants”—donated in separate ... Read More
Met Museum to offer combined same-week admission to The Cloisters
editor- April 25, 2013 05:56Beginning May 1, in celebration of the 75th-anniversary year of The Cloisters museum and gardens, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will offer same-week admission to The Cloisters for members of ... Read More
Metropolitan Museum to open 7 days a week starting July 1
editor- March 22, 2013 06:16NEW YORK, N.Y. - As of July 1, 2013, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will open to the public 7 days a week, it was announced today by Thomas P. ... Read More
Met Museum exhibition opening at National Museum of China in Beijing
editor- February 1, 2013 08:11A major exhibition of masterworks from the world-renowned collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, will be on view at the National Museum of China in Beijing from ... Read More
Metropolitan Museum to reopen Cloisters on November 6
editor- November 3, 2012 08:00NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that its branch museum in Fort Tryon Park, The Cloisters, will reopen to the public on Tuesday, November 6. Read More
Met Museum presents Storytelling in Japanese Art
editor- November 18, 2011 06:47Japan has enjoyed a long tradition of storytelling through paintings and illustrated books, which continues today in the popular art of manga (comic books for children and adults). Read More
Berlin lends statue of Pharaoh to Metropolitan Museum for 10 years
editor- August 6, 2011 06:21A monumental ancient Egyptian statue of a seated pharaoh—probably Amenemhat II—will be lent to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Berlin’s renowned Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatl Read More
Metropolitan Museum announces highest attendance in 40 years
editor- July 22, 2011 06:46The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 5.68 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. Read More
Metropolitan Museum of Art returns King Tut’s artifacts
editor- November 24, 2010 05:27(eTN) - Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, and Thomas P. Read More
Granite fragment from Metropolitan Museum of Art goes home to Egypt
editor- October 29, 2009 06:26An ancient Egyptian granite relief fragment inscribed with the name of Amenemhat I, ruler of Egypt from 1991 BC to 1962 BC, is being returned tomorrow, October 29, to its ... Read More