The time machine on Fifth Avenue
Portals to ancient empires
Treasures of the Pacific and early Americas
Behind the velvet ropes
themet Sort artifacts behind the velvet ropes to discover how ancient civilizations proved they existed.
themet Mountmakers at The Metropolitan Museum of Art craft invisible sculpture supports.
themet Behind the Velvet Ropes
We sweep the X-rays through the shades of blue, To bring the artist's hidden world to view.
The fake warriors: For forty years, the Met proudly displayed three giant terracotta warriors before discovering they were actually twentieth-century Italian fakes.
themet Piece together a two-thousand-six-hundred-year-old bronze puzzle from ancient Italy.
What scientific discovery in 1952 proved that three of the Met's 'ancient Etruscan' terracotta warriors were modern fakes?
What natural disaster threat in New York requires Met mountmakers to use special 'seismic wax' for securing fragile vases?
What material is commonly used by Met conservators because it is chemically inert and won't damage artifacts?
Why are the Met galleries housing delicate tapestries and works on paper kept much darker than other galleries?
How did the Met originally receive the fragments of the Monteleone Etruscan chariot in 1903?
In 1903, the Met acquired a famous ancient chariot made by which pre-Roman Italian civilization?