Museum
The Met Cloisters
99 Margaret Corbin Dr, New York, NY 10040, USA
Medieval art museum built from reassembled European cloisters, perched above the Hudson River.
This guide to The Met Cloisters in New York follows George Grey Barnard, a broke early-1900s sculptor who scavenged medieval stonework across the French countryside, including a knight's tomb effigy he found serving as a footbridge. It traces how his makeshift Manhattan museum passed to John D. Rockefeller Jr., who shaped this hilltop site and the Palisades view across the river. You'll also hear about a set of medieval tapestries upstairs and the war that once put them to an unlikely use.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.