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Cheers for the weekend! So much family fun happening around town, including Garden Day at The Met Cloisters. Explore medieval herbs and gardens with tours, demonstrations, and family-friendly art-making activities in a magical castle-like setting. Last time we went we discovered the kids like sorrel (and the goblets we made with the amazing museum educators).
Details on this on so many more awesome options on our site:
https://kidonthetown.com/
What are you doing this weekend?
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From San Leonardo al Frigido, Massa - Italy
If you wish to be greeted by an unwelcoming, stoic staff--everyone from the reception desk, security, and those who man the counter in the cafe--then visit the Met Cloisters. If you wish for your requests for directions to be met by a staff who responds as if you are a nuisance; as if you are interfering with their thoughts about being anywhere other than at their job, then visit the Met Cloisters.
If you want to feel as if your $25 fee, or suggested fee for NYS residents, is appreciated, then please skip the Met Cloisters and visit the many world-class cultural institutions that line the streets of NYC, awaiting your patronage with the courtesy and smile that the Met Cloisters so painfully lacks.
As a native New Yorker and educator in NYC schools for more than 25 years, I have visited multiple cultural institutions across this great city, and I have never experienced a staff that is as curt, unwelcoming, and dismissive to their patrons as those at the Met Cloisters...it is most unfortunate.
If you wish to be greeted by an unwelcoming, stoic staff--everyone from the reception desk, security, and those who man the counter in the cafe--then visit the Met Cloisters. If you wish for your requests for directions to be met by a staff who responds as if you are a nuisance; as if you are interfering with their thoughts about being anywhere other than at their job, then visit the Met Cloisters.
As a native New Yorker and educator in NYC schools for more than 25 years, I have visited multiple cultural institutions across this great city, and I have never experienced a staff that is as curt, unwelcoming, and dismissive to their patrons as those at the Met Cloisters. If you want to feel as if your $25 fee is appreciated (or suggested fee for NYC residents), then please skip the Met Cloisters and visit the many world-class cultural institutions that line the streets of NYC, awaiting your patronage with the courtesy and smile that the Met Cloisters so painfully lacks.
The “unofficial start of summer” is here — and what better way to celebrate than a walk through the garden? 🌸🌼🌷
Stroll (or scroll) through this beautiful flora on the app: bloombg.org/3LYNvzR
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1. Vincent van Gogh, Entrance to the Public Gardens in Arles, 1888, Oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 35 3/4 in., The Phillips Collection, Acquired 1930. The Phillips Collection
2. View of the Bonnefont Cloister Herb Garden, The Met Cloisters. The Met Cloisters
3. Rosa ‘Excelsa’ (hybrid wichurana rose) blooming in BBG's Rose Garden. 📸: Michael Stewart. Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Works of faith,hope and love,www.faopal.hu
Earlier this week, World Languages Chair Dr. Kevin Kelton and Upper School Principal Mr. Kieran Daly took our Latin 1 Superior Talent Enrichment Program students to The Met Cloisters of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where they explored the Latinate culture of the Medieval period.
The Met Cloisters - At long last—Garden Tours are back! 🌱
Explore the sights, sounds, and scents of the gardens, and learn how medieval plants and gardens served medicinal, artistic, and even magical purposes.
Garden Tours are offered on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays from May through September. Free with Museum admission.
Transport yourself to the Middle Ages with Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. 🤳
Explore The Met Cloisters by accessing our Audio Guide, object information, high-resolution photography, videos, and more from wherever you are.
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Another look at The Met Cloisters Museum in NYC on this special weekend. The reconstructed Italian sanctuary is breathtaking, and humbling. Worth a visit any time of the year. Here's a peek at our visit:
https://museumaccess.com/season-1/
Transport yourself to the Middle Ages with Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. 🤳
Explore The Met Cloisters by accessing our Audio Guide, object information, high-resolution photography, videos, and more from wherever you are.
Pono students recently completed an enriching mentorship in medieval art history at The Met Cloisters and learned how to curate an exhibition.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! 🦁 🐯 🐻
Mark with a peek at some of the many animals currently on display in our halls.
Discover depictions of your favorite friends from the animal kingdom with a virtual deep-dive into The Met collection:
https://met.org/3KcTctl
🦁 Unidentified German maker. Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion, ca. 1400. On view at The Met Cloisters in Gallery 10.
🐯 Unidentified Chinese maker. Rank badge with tiger, 18th–19th century. On view in Gallery 207.
🐻 Roman or Byzantine. Vessel in the Shape of a Bear, 3rd–4th century. On view in Gallery 301.
Did you know the design, layout, and ambiance of the Met Cloisters are intended to evoke a sense of medieval European monastic life? ✨ The museum has 4 cloisters, the Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem, Bonnefont and Trie, that were acquired by American sculptor and art dealer George Grey Barnard in 1913. Barnard's collection was bought for the Met by financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
📸 The Met Cloisters
Transport yourself to the Middle Ages with Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. 🤳
Explore The Met Cloisters by accessing our Audio Guide, object information, high-resolution photography, videos, and more from wherever you are.