The Met Cloisters
Medieval art museum built from reassembled European cloisters, perched above the Hudson River.
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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.
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