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Happy 150th Birthday Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alan Fisher, [Tapestries exhibited at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York], 1941 (2012.121.32) PM, March 6, 1941, pp. 18-19 (photos by Alan Fisher) PM Photographer Agrees With Moses About Museums… Early this week Park Commissioner Robert Moses said some unpleasant … Continue reading

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 145 years

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded on April 13, 1870. For 145 years, today,  the museum has lived by its mission statement “to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in … Continue reading

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