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	Metropolitan Museum of Art - MSN Encarta
		Metropolitan Museum of Art, art museum in New York City, one of the largest and most comprehensive art museums in the world.
		The Metropolitan Museum of Art is divided into several curatorial departments, each responsible for acquiring, preserving, studying, and exhibiting works of art in its field.
		The museum, in collaboration with the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, sponsors a curatorial studies program for graduate students in art history.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560817/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.html (816 words)

	Metropolitan Museum of Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the world's largest and most important art museums, located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York, United States.
		Housed in the "Robert Lehman Wing," the museum refers to the collection [1] as one of the most extraordinary private art collections ever assembled in the United States.
		The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art are near the museum's main building.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art (508 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Metropolitan Museum of Art
		The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens – businessmen and financiers as well as leading arists and thinkers of the day – who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.
		Among the additions to the Museum as part of the master plan are: the Robert Lehman Wing (1975), which houses an extraordinary collection of Old Masters, as well as Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art; the installation in The Sackler Wing of the Temple of Dendur (1978), an Egyptian monument (ca.
		The museum's first buildings in Central Park were set back from Fifth Avenue and shared the appearance of structures set within a park, apart from the city.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /UES/UES074.htm (2897 words)

	ArtLex on Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Museums are seen to be educational instruments for the systematic organization and presentation of artistic and natural phenomena.
		The museum stands in contrast to the Kunstkabinette and Kunstkammer, or cabinet and chamber of curiosities, of the Renaissance, where odd and wondrous rarities were brought together for private contemplation and pleasure.
		Museums operate under the leadership of a board of trustees, who oversee the activities of a director, a person who in turn supervises the work of curators, preparators, registrars, librarians, security guards, and others.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/m/museum.html (1113 words)

	Encyclopedia: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Cloisters as seen from the Hudson River The Cloisters is one of the museums of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
		Thomas P.F. Hoving (born January 15, 1931), is an American museum executive and consultant and the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
		Art museums and galleries in the United States Insecula: Lencyclopédie des arts et de larchitecture is a French language art website containing images and descriptions of thousands of works of art from major museums and collections in France and elsewhere, including the Louvre, the Musée dOrsay, the Palace of Versailles, the Centre Pompidou...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Metropolitan-Museum-of-Art (1741 words)

	Metropolitan Museum of Art in The NYC Insider: an Insider's Guide to New York City
		In the 1960s, the Metropolitan was awarded the Temple of Dendur, a remarkable, fully intact limestone structure where the goddess Isis was once worshipped.
		The museum is generally quieter in the evenings, and as a bonus, you will be able to enjoy a glass of wine at the Great Balcony Bar when you tire of viewing the exhibits.
		The museum is easily accessible by public transportation via the #4, 5 and 6 subway lines to 86th Street.
	www.theinsider.com /nyc/museums/1metropo.htm (1224 words)

	AllRefer.com - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Museum (Art Museums) - Encyclopedia
		The Metropolitan Museum is the foremost repository of art in the United States.
		It is owned by the city, which contributes a certain sum yearly for upkeep, but otherwise the museum is supported by private endowment and income from memberships and admission fees that are requested as voluntary contributions.
		The museum's most outstanding collections include European paintings and sculpture of the Renaissance, baroque, and modern periods; pastels; watercolors; miniatures; and a vast number of drawings and graphic art works.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MetropolMA.html (510 words)

	Metropolitan Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10029 (212-534-1672) is between 103rd and 104th Streets, three blocks north of Mt. Sinai Hospital.
		The museum shop at the Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128 (89th Street), 212-423-3500, has books on early European to contemporary artists and architects who are in the permanent collection or have been featured in an exhibition at the museum.
		The mother of all museum shops is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028 (main entrance on 82nd Street), 212-535-7710.
	www.museumhelp.com /metropolitan-museum (881 words)

	Metropolitan Museum - Antiquities
		The nucleus of the Museum Collection of Antiquities was formed by the di Cesnola Collection of Cypriote objects in gold, silver, pottery, alabaster and bronze.
		While all the famous examples of Hellenic sculpture may be studied from the Casts in the Museum, the exhibition of original work will show how dead the reproduction compared with the object that has been vitalized by the master's own hand.
		In comparing this statue with the Cast in the Museum of Eirene and the infant Ploutos (the god of wealth), the original of which is in the Glyptotheck of Munich, we will readily recognize the analogy between the two.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles20/met-museum-2.shtml (4717 words)

	Artcom Museums Tour: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The, New York NY
		The new galleries showcase the Museum's important holdings of Chinese painting and calligraphy dating from the 8th through the 20th century as well as a magnificent selection ofjades, lacquers, textiles, metalwork, and other decorative art objects from the 12th through the 18th century.
		Featured in the installation is the Museum's extensive collection of superb secular and religious art produced in the Byzantine Empire from its capital in Constantinople to its southern border in Egypt.
		The patio, which was reconstructed at the Museum in 1964 and became commonly known as the Blumenthal Patio, has for the past three years undergone conservation and refurbishment with the addition of a new marble floor more in keeping with the original structure.
	www.artcom.com /Museums/vs/mr/10028-01.htm (1836 words)

	Metropolitan Police History
		As a tribute to the many members of the Metropolitan Police Service who have given their lives in the course of policing London, the names contained in the Roll of Honour are set out here...
		Read about the first days in the life of the Metropolitan Police Service, the salaries of the first officers, how the idea of the beat system was devised, the problems of discipline, and how the public regarded the new Metropolitan Police...
		The Crime Museum at Scotland Yard is the oldest museum in the world put together purely for recording crime...
	www.met.police.uk /history (344 words)

	Metropolitan Museum Steps - Great Public Spaces \| Project for Public Spaces (PPS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The grand, granite steps leading to The Metropolitan Museum of Art are a destination themselves: a place to meet, eat, talk, and watch both people and Fifth Avenue traffic.
		The museum's location, between the many grand townhouses of Fifth Avenue and the green oasis of Central Park, allows the stairs to serve not only as an entranceway to the museum, but also as a meeting place for the people of New York.
		In 1975, under Museum Director Thomas Hoving and with funds from Lila Acheson Wallace, the staircase and entranceway were replaced with a wider, safer entrance designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates.
	www.pps.org /great_public_spaces/one?public_place_id=58 (719 words)

	Metropolitan Museum - Ceramics
		The decoration consists of brilliantly coloured earths or pastes, which are baked into spaces cut away in the clay forming the ground work of the pieces, and may be compared to champ leve enamel.
		A few years ago a piece was sold at a sale at Chris-tie's, which was attended by representatives of all the great European museums and of the wealthiest collectors to battle for this piece of Faience d' Oiron.
		Examples are found in the Museum of old English stoneware, Stafford-shire Chinaware, printed ware, Lustre, Leeds salt-glaze ware, and English jasper and granite ware by Adams, Palmer, Turner and Wedgwood.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles20/met-museum-20.shtml (3745 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
		The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums.
		The Museum's approximately 2,500 European paintings form one of the greatest such collections in the world -- Rembrandts and Vermeers alone are among the choicest, not to mention the collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases.
		The Museum's educational programs are attended annually by approximately 350,000 general Museum visitors, students from the grade school to the university level, and teachers.
	www.tfaoi.com /newsmu/nmus40.htm (1160 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the world
		University Museum of Mineralogy, Petrography and Minerals University of Mining and Geology St. Ivan Rilski, Sofia.
		The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition.
		Museums of Lithuania (in English, French and German).
	icom.museum /vlmp/world.html (1076 words)

	Portraits from the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York
		The museum's collections, among the finest in the world, are divided into 18 curatorial departments.
		Many of models are unknown, mostly nice people, who lived a long time ago and whose faces were preserved by the talent of artists of their generations.
		All presented stamps were issued in the year 1995, in order to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
	www.artonstamps.org /Art-Gallery/Museums/Metropolitan/metro-portraits.htm (235 words)

	Artistic Flare
		The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens — businessmen and financiers as well as leading arists and thinkers of the day — who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.
		But it is the 20th century that has seen the Museum's rise to the position of one of the world's great art centers.
		Among the additions to the Museum as part of the master plan are: the Robert Lehman Wing (1975), which houses an extraordinary collection of Old Masters, as well as Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art; the installation in The Sackler Wing of the Temple of Dendur (1978), an Egyptian monument (ca.
	www.geocities.com /take_me_to_the_met (527 words)

	Metropolitan Museum of Art NY - Virtual tour African art - RAND AFRICAN ART
		This is a virtual tour I put together of the African art collection at the museum from photos I took while I was there in May of 2005.
		in 1954 in association with René d'Harnoncourt, the Museum of Primitive Art, to the Metropolitan Museum.
		Though the Metropolitan's collection is particularly strong in the sculpture from the island of New Guinea, both from the Sepik
	www.randafricanart.com /Met_museum_virtual_tour.html (967 words)

	Chinagate: Symposium at the Metropolitan Museum on Chinese Paintings Dec. 11, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While the amount of funds spent by the museum on Wen Fong's acquisitions has not been publicly disclosed, one of the major purchases was of the Harry Packard Collection of Japanese Art, and the museum said at the time that that acquisition used up its acquisition funds for the entire museum for five years.
		Thus, one must conclude that the museum has backed off somewhat from the very grandiose claims that have been made for it, claims that fly in the face of casual observers who would be hard put to consider the work masterful in comparison with many other uncontested early Chinese paintings.
		Zhang's "Juran" painting in the British Museum is a more satisfying composition in large part because of the treatment of the distant mountains near the top and the stronger emphasis on the double waterfall in the middle of the painting.
	www.thecityreview.com /symposium.html (13571 words)

	Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The museum was incorporated in 1870 and opened two years later.
		More results on "Metropolitan Museum of Art" when you join.
		Compilation of links to artworks of this neo-impressionist painter showcased by museums and art galleries such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, J. Paul Getty Museum, and the National Gallery, London.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9052363?tocId=9052363 (795 words)

	Metropolitan Museum of Art Launches Spring Store Online
		Every product created by the Museum is the result of careful research and expert execution by the Metropolitan's staff of art historians, designers, and master craftspeople, who ensure that each reproduction bears the closest possible fidelity to the original.
		In September of 1998, Dorothea Arnold, Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge of the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Egyptian Art, was in the process of preparing a major exhibition of Egyptian art of the Old Kingdom (2650—2150 B.C.E.), which was on view at the Metropolitan from September 16, 1999, to January 9, 2000.
		Since members of the Metropolitan's excavation team knew that it was common for builders of pyramids and other architectural structures to take stones from older sites and reuse them for new buildings, they were curious about the origin of the reliefs.
	www.urlwire.com /news/030304.html (1249 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Give us back our chariot, Umbrian villagers tell the Metropolitan Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A tiny Umbrian village is taking on the mighty Metropolitan Museum in New York, claiming that one of its most exalted exhibits, an Etruscan chariot, was illegally exported from Italy 100 years ago.
		The sixth-century bronze and ivory chariot, the pride of the museum's Etruscan collection, was originally sold to two Frenchmen by a farmer who dug it up in a field at Monteleone di Spoleto, near Perugia, in 1902.
		The museum hoped that Italian dignitaries would attend the opening of its new Roman galleries in 2007, of which the chariot would be the centrepiece.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/witaly30.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/30/ixportal.html (813 words)

	Metropolitan Museum - tips by travel authority Howard Hillman
		Metropolitan Museum - tips by travel authority Howard Hillman
		International art experts consider the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to be one of the world's two greatest all-around art museums (the other being the Louvre).
		The Greek, Roman and Egyptian art collections in the Metropolitan Museum are also widely heralded, as are those on African, Chinese and Japanese art.
	www.hillmanwonders.com /metropolitan_museum/metropolitan_museum.htm (205 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: metmuseum.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The youth on this grave monument is shown as an athlete with an aryballos (oil flask) suspended from his wrist.
		This object will be featured in the New Greek and Roman Galleries, the last major phase of which opens to the public April 20.
		Copyright © 2000–2007 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
	www.metmuseum.org (117 words)

	GoCityKids New York City \| Metropolitan Museum of Art
		Look for the museum's family greeters - easily spotted in their bright red aprons - who are sometimes on hand to recommend programs that the whole family can enjoy.
		All of the Museum's weekend family programs are open to adults and children with disabilities.
		Members of the Museum at the Family/Dual level ($175/year) or higher may enroll with their children ages three to 14 in special series of exclusive gallery adventures, parent-child workshops, drawing classes, and other studio activities.
	www.gocitykids.com /browse/attraction.jsp?id=1263 (996 words)

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