Metropolitan Museum to Open 7 Days a Week Starting July 1 2013

A view of new Roman Gallery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Metropolitan Museum to Open 7 Days a Week Starting July 1:

 "Metropolitan Museum to Open 7 Days a Week Starting July 1
Will Open Mondays throughout Year for First Time in 42 Years

(New York, March 21, 2013)—As of July 1, 2013, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will open to the public 7 days a week, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Museum. This new schedule will go into effect at both the Museum’s main building on Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street in Manhattan and at The Cloisters museum and gardens, its branch museum for medieval art and architecture in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan."

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A Tree Grows in the Courtyard | The Medieval Garden Enclosed | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A Tree Grows in the Courtyard | The Medieval Garden Enclosed | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:

 "Visitors to The Cloisters may have spied the top of a large oak tree just above the wall at the postern gate entrance. This white oak grows in a courtyard enclosed by the ramparts, which also include maintenance passages, storage, an education workshop area, and garden workspaces.

Quercus alba, the white oak, is a common and long-lived North American hardwood. The bark gives the tree its name, though it is usually light gray rather than white. Oak timber is water resistant, strong, elastic, and dense, qualities that have led to a multitude of uses ranging from shipbuilding to supports for panel paintings (see “The Garden in Heraldry: The Great Oak of the Forest,” December 8, 2011). In addition to its timber, the oak’s bark is used in cork making, in tanning, and as a dyestuff. It also has several medicinal applications."



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