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Summary: The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded and built in 1870 by a group of New York City philanthropists who wanted to compile extensive collections of art. Visit the Met, which houses a huge scope of art and artifacts, with information from an art history professor in this free video on art museums.
Professor Carlton Wilkinson is an assistant professor in the art and art history departments at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His research interests include...read more
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was founded in 1870 by a group of philanthropists in the New York area. The Metropolitan museum alone was all the Whitney and the Guggenheim and so forth that you know you can't cover in one visit. But the Metropolitan museum what I take from it is again they've recreated Egypt in one of their exhibition spaces. Its just extraordinarily expensive. Probably my prejudice is its far too much to see in a one visit. Although they do have rotating show in exhibitions. I was just thoroughly impressed with the scope and range of art that they were able to ensemble. I think you need an organization as huge as the Metropolitan to accomplish something like that."
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