Medieval Europe in Upper Manhattan
The Met Cloisters is a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and the only American museum dedicated solely to the art of the Middle Ages. It opened in 1938 on a four-acre site overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan. The museum complex features five cloisters designed to evoke historic monastic spaces, with medieval architectural fragments from Europe incorporated into the fabric of the building itself. Three period gardens flourish from early spring until late fall. This extraordinary setting is home to a renowned collection of more than 5,000 pieces of medieval art. These include illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, metalwork, enamels, ivories and paintings, and the exquisite set of seven “Unicorn Tapestries,” woven around 1500 in the Southern Netherlands.
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