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The Cloisters Description

The Cloisters houses medieval art in a building that itself features medieval cloisters, chapels and halls. Sculptor George Barnard founded the museum in 1914. In 1925, John Rockefeller funded the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 1925 purchase of the collection and donated the site at Fort Tyron Park.

Hobbies & Activities category: Paintings, art collections; Architecture - Medieval; Major world-scale museum

The Cloisters Highlights

Cloisters - Gothic Art Collection

The Gothic art collection includes the Gothic Chapel whose colored windows depict Biblical stories. The Boppard Room chronicles the lives of the saints in late-Gothic stained glass from Germany

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Cloisters - Medieval Gardens

The Medieval Gardens contain over 250 varieties of plants grown in the Middle Ages.

Cloisters - Romanesque Collection

The Romanesque collection spans masterpieces of art and architecture such as the twelfth-century Cuxa Cloister from the French Pyrenees; the Narbonne Arch; and a twelfth-century fresco of the

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Cloisters - Tapestries Collection

The Tapestries are among the Cloisters' most prized collections. Included are four Nine Heroes Tapestries from France, one of two sets that have survived since the fourteenth century. The Hunt of

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Cloisters - Treasury

The Treasury includes several Gothic illuminated books of hours dating back to the fourteenth-century; a thirteenth-century English ivory Virgin, a fourteenth-century silver gilt; candlesticks,

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Address

The Cloisters
Fort Tyron Park
New York, NY 10040
United States
Phone 1 (212) 923-3700
Fax 1 (212) 795-3640

http://www.metmuseum.org

Hours

March 1 to October 31

Open	Closed	9:30	9:30	9:30	9:30	9:30	9:30
Closed		17:15	17:15	17:15	17:15	17:15	17:15



Open	Closed	9:30	9:30	9:30	9:30	9:30	9:30
Closed		16:45	16:45	16:45	16:45	16:45	16:45

Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1) Thanksgiving - USA (4th Thursday, November) Christmas - Christian (December 25)