Access at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

09/19/2025

We-ave been meaning to invite you to our special event with Hope & Heroes and Intertwine Arts! Join us on Sunday, September 28 from 2:00 - 4:30 pm for an exciting workshop in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. We'll be looking into our newly reopened Arts of Africa galleries before learning how to use a loom with our friends from Intertwine Arts!

The event is free for anyone in the pediatric hematology and oncology community. Register by emailing [email protected] or through the Microsoft Form link at https://forms.office.com/r/EeqgD6vUeV

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07/22/2025

The ADA35 Rally and March is sparked in response to the United States' current administration's attacks on laws upholding rights for people with disabilities. As such, we insist on protecting Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 which makes our lives vibrant and equal. ADA35, The Future is Disabl...

05/30/2025

There's still room to register for next week's Picture This!—Superfine: Tailoring Black Style on Friday, June 6 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm.

Contact 212-650-2010 or [email protected] to register to join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes of The Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition! "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism.

For adults who are blind or partially sighted. Free, though advance registration is required. Space is limited. Contact 212-650-2010 or [email protected] to register.

05/21/2025

We're so excited to announce the return of Met Signs in the Studio on Saturday, June 14 from 2:00 - 4:30 pm!

Explore the exhibition "Sargent and Paris" with teaching artists Debra Cole and Hollie Ecker. Then, create your own work of art in the studio. For visitors of all ages.

Free, though advance registration is required.

Details Explore the exhibition Sargent and Paris with teaching artists Debra Cole and Hollie Ecker. Then, create your own work of art in the studio. For visitors of all ages. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Sargent and Paris. Free, though advance registration is required. Space is limit...

05/14/2025

On Friday, June 6 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York is hosting a special Picture This!—Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.

Join Mellissa Huber, Associate Curator of The Costume Institute; Monica Miller, Guest Curator of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" and Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Barnard College; Kaelyn Garcia, Assistant Conservator in The Costume Institute; and Kai Marcel, Research Assistant for The Costume Institute as we go behind-the-scenes of The Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition. "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism.

For adults who are blind or partially sighted. Free, though advance registration is required. Space is limited. Contact 212-650-2010 or [email protected] register.

Details Mellissa Huber, Associate Curator, The Costume Institute, The MetMonica Miller, Guest Curator, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, and Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityKaelyn Garcia, Assistant Conservator, The Costume Institute, The MetKai Marcel, Re...

04/25/2025

Don’t miss out on tomorrow’s Celebrating Women Artists concert with The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School! Join us for an evening of art and music from 6:00 - 7:30 pm.

The concert is free with Museum admission. Sighted guides will be available at the Museum’s 81st and 82nd Street entrances beginning at 5:15 pm.

04/18/2025

Join Summertime Gallery’s Artist-in-Residence Jennifer Quinones for a “Divine Pet Portraits” workshop at The Met Cloisters in Pontaut Chapter House. Participants are invited to bring in a photo of a beloved pet and draw them in the style of a divine icon – a medieval saint, an Egyptian god, a Grecian deity – the pawsibilities are endless! 🐱🐾

Free with Museum admission. Advance registration is suggested - please email [email protected] to register. All experience levels welcome; all materials provided.

Accessibility at The Met Cloisters is somewhat limited for wheelchair users and others who need step-free access due to the building’s landmark status.

For questions or assistance, contact us at [email protected] or call 212-650-6050.

04/15/2025

Tanekeya Word's poster, published by Du Good Press in 2020, highlights the names of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Black women reformers. The names include those who led the African American women’s club movement and fought for voting rights for Black women and men.

Join us for The Fil at The Met Concert—Celebrating Women in the Arts on Saturday, April 26 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm to hear how our partners at The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School responded to Word's powerful message.

🎨: Tanekeya Word (American, born 1983). We Were There. We Are Here. We Are in the Future., 2020. John B. Turner Fund, 2020 (2021.59).

04/10/2025

We can't believe we're only a little more than two weeks away from this year's The Fil at The Met Concert—Celebrating Women in the Arts! Come join us and The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School on Saturday, April 26 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm to honor the immeasurable contributions of women in the arts.

Free with Museum admission; admission is pay what you wish for New York state residents, and free for children under 12 with an adult, and a caregiver accompanying a visitor with a disability. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served.

Includes verbal description. Assistive listening devices are available from the ushers.

Sighted guides will be available at the Museum’s 81st and 82nd Street entrances from 5:15 pm.

Details Join The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School as they honor the immeasurable contributions of women in the arts with performances inspired by The Met collection. The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School is a community school of the arts dedicated to helping individuals of...

04/02/2025

This year, ahead of The Fil at The Met Concert—Celebrating Women in the Arts, Met Access hosted quilt workshops for students from The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School to create their own unique quilt squares inspired by the Woman's Rights Quilt, and others in the Museum's Collection. Come join us on Saturday, April 26 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm to see the quilts we created together and to hear how our partners from the school responded to Emma Civey Stahl's quilt with music!

Check out The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York's recent post to learn more about Emma Civey Stahl's iconic quilt.

Before most women had access to formal training in sculpture or painting, they turned to an art form they could create at home: quiltmaking. ✨

In the 1870s, Emma Civey Stahl stitched together history in a pictorial quilt featuring 12 vivid scenes from the era. Some vignettes depict Civil War soldiers—still a fresh memory—while others follow the life of a women's rights reformer.

In one vignette, the activist prepares to leave her husband and child, a 'Woman’s Rights' banner slung over her shoulder. Another shows her in a horse-drawn cart, en route to a meeting where, in a third scene, she delivers a passionate lecture.

Stahl’s comical take on one of the most serious issues of the late 19th century offers a rare glimpse into the era’s attitudes toward women’s rights. Whether she was for or against them remains unclear, but what is clear is the artistry and effort she poured into capturing a woman’s experience at the time.

Celebrate with The Met all March long. Explore the vital contributions women make to our lives, art, and society through exhibitions, events, digital content, and more: met.org/4bkJsw3

⁣🧵 Emma Civey Stahl (American). Woman’s Rights Quilt, ca. 1875. Cotton.

03/27/2025

Join us for The Fil at The Met Concert—Celebrating Women in the Arts on Saturday, April 26 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm to hear how our partners at The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School responded to Marie Densie Villers' portrait through music!

Did you know that Villers was the sister of the painter Marie Victorine Lemoine and a pupil of Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson, Jacques Louis David’s student? Villers exhibited this work publicly in 1801 under her name, but it was soon incorrectly ascribed to David—a misidentification perpetuated until the 1950s. Due in part to this history, the painting appeared on the cover of a 1971 issue of Artnews that featured a watershed call to reevaluate art history, Linda Nochlin’s "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"

🎨: Marie Denise Villers (French, 1774–1821). Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868), 1801. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917 (17.120.204).

03/19/2025

Join us and Hope & Heroes on Sunday, April 6 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm for a tour + artmaking program! This program is a wonderful opportunity for children and families who have experienced pediatric cancer or rare blood disorders to connect over art!

The program is free for the pediatric oncology & hematology community, but space is limited. Please register using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/Hope-and-Heroes-April-2025 or emailing [email protected].