The Cloisters, New York

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.

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.

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.

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.

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