The Met Cloisters

The Met Cloisters is a museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City, specializing in European medieval art and architecture. The museum is situated in Fort Tryon Park and contains a large collection of medieval artworks shown in the architectural settings of French monasteries and abbeys. Its buildings are centered around four cloisters that were acquired by American sculptor and art dealer George Grey Barnard in France before 1913, and moved to New York. The museum's design, layout, and ambiance are intended to evoke a sense of medieval European monastic life, with medieval gardens and a series of chapels and themed galleries, including the Romanesque, Fuentidueña, Unicorn, Spanish, and Gothic rooms. The museum holds about 5,000 works of art and architecture, all European and mostly dating from the Byzantine to the early Renaissance periods