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New York - The Cloisters

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.

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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. The Campin Room features the Annunciation altarpiece and furnishings from a fifteenth-century family.

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 Virgin and Child. A highlight is the life-size Spanish crucifix dating back to the 1100s.

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 the Unicorn is a series of seven tapestries woven in Brussels around 1500. Overall, the tapestries here are well-preserved and presented.

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, crucifixes, chalices and even playing cards from the medieval times.
Address
The Cloisters
Fort Tyron Park
New York, NY 10040
United States
Phone 1 (212) 923-3700
Fax 1 (212) 795-3640
Hours
March 1 to October 31
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November 1 to February 29
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Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1)
Thanksgiving - USA (4th Thursday, November )
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Tips
Price includes admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the same day.
Parking
Free
Disabled
Partial facilities for persons with disabilities.
Guides
Guided tour available as optional extra.
Facilities
Gift shop
Restaurant or food service
Transit
190th Street subway
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