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Explore 5,000 years of art and history from around the world with The Met.

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Go outside. Touch some grass on your way to The Met Cloisters. 🌳🏰 Garden tours are held on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 11am and are free with Museum admission. Space is limited; first come, first served—no advance registration required. #GetCultured

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At the intersection of art and science is the magical field of conservation 🎨🔬✨ Did You Know: The Met has more than 40 areas that host interns from a wide variety of academic backgrounds! #DitL #conservation #GetCultured

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I always feel like somebody's watching me 👀🙈

Did you know Greek and Roman statues were often brightly painted? Bronze statues were originally a pale fleshlike brown. Lips and nipples were often inlaid with copper, and teeth with silver. #GetCultured #AncientGreece

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Take a closer look at Halsey’s Roof Garden Commission 🕵️
#GetCultured

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Nairy Baghramian "Scratching the Back" now graces The Met Fifth Avenue ✨

As the fourth in the series of contemporary commissions for The Met’s facade, Nairy Baghramian’s four abstract polychrome sculptures—her first public installation in New York City—feature components that seem to have washed up like flotsam and jetsam in the voids of their respective niches.

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Coming to check out Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid?  
This exhibition is the first full-fledged museum survey of Brown’s work in New York! The survey assembles some fifty paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes from across her career, exploring the recurring themes of still life, memento mori, mirroring, and vanitas. #ContemporaryArt #DeathandtheMaid

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.5 or die

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See "Cypresses" on view in "Van Gogh's Cypresses" through August 27.

Missed it in this exhibition? Not to worry—this painting is in The Met collection and will remain at the Museum after the show closes. ⁣⁣

🎨 Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890). Cypresses, June 1889. Oil on canvas.

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What does a typical day look like at The Met Cloisters? 🏰  Join Education intern Tenaya as they take us behind-the-scenes at our medieval uptown campus. Tenaya is part of our summer MuSe (Museum Seminar) internship program. We’re so sad to see them go after a wonderful summer!   DYK: The Met has more than 40 areas that host interns from a wide variety of academic backgrounds!   🎥 Filmed by Education intern Andrew. #dayinmylife #museumtok

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Curious what it’s like to be an intern at The Met? 🤔   Get to know three interns in the External Affairs Department who are part of our summer MuSe (Museum Seminar) internship program. We’re so sad to see them go after a wonderful summer!   DYK: The Met has more than 40 areas that host interns from a wide variety of academic backgrounds!

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If you get lost, ask for the exhibition with all the trees 🌳 ✨ Final month! Visit “Van Gogh’s Cypresses” through August 27.

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For the first time since 1901, these two incredible works by Vincent van Gogh are on view together, side by side in the exhibition “Van Gogh’s Cypresses.” See them together through August 27. 🌲🎨

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How will we choose??? #CostumeInstitute #Barbie #Oppenheimer #Barbenheimer

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There’s no fashion fix too hard for Anita Briey 🪡✨

Take a peek behind the scenes in The Costume Institute conservation lab as Anita illuminates her process to prepare this glittering garment for display in #ALineOfBeauty .

Anita came to New York this spring, bringing with her 42 years of fashion experience. She noticed that the candlestick motif embroidery on this Karl Lagerfeld dress was causing the silk crepe fabric to pucker. She worked carefully to undo the stiches that were too close together, press the base fabric, then re-stitch the embroidered panel back on the dress. She also added weights at the bottom of the embroidery on the interior of the dress, helping the fabric fall gracefully.

FINAL WEEKEND—Admire this dress and Anita’s work in person before the exhibition closes this Sunday, July 16. Tap the link in bio to plan your visit.

Dress, #KarlLagerfeld (French, born Germany 1938–2019), KARL LAGERFELD (French, founded 1984), fall/winter 1985–86, edition 2023; Courtesy KARL LAGERFELD. #CostumeInstitute

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There's a whole lot to notice in Juan de Pareja's complex painting "The Calling of Saint Matthew"—including the artist's own self-portrait. What did it mean for Juan de Pareja to depict himself in a large-scale religious painting?

See this and more in "Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter" on view through July 16. #MetPareja

🎨 Juan de Pareja (Spanish, ca. 1608–1670). The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1661. Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. @museodelprado
🎨 Diego Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660). Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), 1650. Oil on canvas.

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Who will you bring with you to see "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty"? Tag your best fashion-loving friend—and plan your visit before it closes July 16.

Can't make it during regular hours? Stop by during special Sunday evening hours until 9 pm. (The rest of the Museum is not open during this time.)

Please note: Large bags, backpacks, liquids, and strollers are not permitted in the exhibition. Free bag and coat check is available in Great Hall.

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