The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced recently that 6.28 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is the highest recorded since the Metropolitan Museum began tracking visitor attendance more than 40 years ago. The total number of … Continue reading Met: Record Attendance for New Galleries
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Metropolitan Museum Announces 5.24 Million Annual Attendance, Highest Since 2001
Attendance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art reached 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ends today, June 30, the Museum has announced. This is the first year since 2001 that attendance at the Metropolitan has exceeded five million. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, ranks among the highest in … Continue reading Metropolitan Museum Announces 5.24 Million Annual Attendance, Highest Since 2001
A New Look at Old Rooms
Amelia Peck, Curator of American Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art gave an insightful talk Tuesday on the American Period Rooms at the Met from their inception through the present renovations.Peck said the renovation and reopening of the American period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art not only allowed for a better flow through … Continue reading A New Look at Old Rooms
From Richmond to Chicago, the Reopened American Wing
On my first visit to the reopened American Wing at the Met, I walked past rooms from Richmond, glass from Pittsburgh and pottery from Cincinnati. Nothing in the exhibit that day struck me as much as a Louis Sullivan staircase from Chicago, however. Perhaps with American on the mind, this was because there's no place more … Continue reading From Richmond to Chicago, the Reopened American Wing
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