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Please, I need directions and bus or train options.

The easiest way is to walk up Broadway to the Bowling Green station on the 4 or 5 train. Take an uptown 4 or 5 express train to 86 street. At 86 street head towards Central Park (5th Avenue). When you get to the park make a left and head to 82nd street. The museum will be right there. You can’t miss it.

If so, are there universities (like Columbia in NYC) that depend upon this museum in its academics regadring the studying of medieval arms and armor?

What about Georgetown University and the Smithsonian regarding medieval arms and armor?

Could anybody tell me about American universities that research and study medieval arms and armor?

A non-US school in Western Europe would definitely have more to offer.

Frank Lloyd Wright

…from the upper west side? I prefer to use only the subway, not the bus. Thanks!

The Met is on the east side on 5th and 82 street at the east side of Central Park. There are no subways that go across town through central park. Only buses. If you take a subway from the west side you’ll have an annoying ride with transfers to at least 3 different subways…and when you finally get on the #6 train you’ll still have to walk a few blocks when you get off. Take a cab.

I’m going to NYC later this month and I’m going to the Met. What are the best I can go to in the hour and a half I have?

My very favorite thing at the Metropolitan is the Gubbio Studio. It’s a fifteenth century library in a duke’s palace. As you walk into this room, you see cabinets, closets, bookcases filled with books, musical instruments, scientific instruments, all made of little pieces of inlaid wood. You are not going to believe it when you get close – it’s flat! This should take your breath away – I can’t describe it. And the museum hardly advertises it. It’s on the first floor, north of the medieval sculpture court.

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Next favorite are the weapons and armor:

http://12.151.120.44/Works_of_Art/introduction.asp?dep=4

And, I always love to look at the costume exhibits

I was advised to take"Grand Central and the uptown #4, 5 or 6 to 86th street and then walk the rest" I don’t understand what the uptown 4, 5, 6 are. How do I get on these lines? Are they in Grand Central?

Yes, the #4, 5, and 6 are subway lines that stop at Grand Central Terminal (42nd Street and Lexington Avenue). These lines go either uptown (higher street numbers) or downtown (lower street numbers). You need to take the uptown 4, 5 or 6 train to go to 86th Street.

I need the price for general admission and for students please.

It’s not general. It is Suggested Admission for both MET and Cloisters Museum.
Adult $20
$15 Seniors age 65+
Students: $10. Unless if your school is listed in free list, it’s free.
Membership: FREE.

To help cover the cost, they want you to paid full price.

If you can’t do that, you can pay what-you-wish always.

My former art teacher recently gave the whole 24 book set, and I would like to know how much they’re worth. I’ve tried researching them myself and I’ve come up with rough figures, but I would like an educated approximation.

Only a couple of them look distressed on the spines, and they are in otherwise wonderful condition, and I do not believe that they are missing any of their color plates/images.

found 2 24 volume sets for sale although the product description seems the same as many others on the site for a 12 portfolio set – hopefully this will help

Metropolitan Seminars in Art, 24 Vol. Set
John Canaday
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Book Description: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. Cloth. Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Folio – over 12" – 15" tall. Portfolios 1 – 12 and A – L. Each portfolio has 12 Loose Colored Plates in the front pocket envelope, a set of "Review Questions" and a brochure for the next volume. The majority of these books were never read. Exterior and interior Near Fine, except portfolio G where there is a one inch rip on spine paper. The portfolios are: 1. What is Painting? 2. Realism 3. Expressionism 4. Abstraction 5. Composition as Pattern 6. Composition as Structure 7. Composition as Expression 8. Fresco 9. Tempra and Oil 10. Water Color, Pastel and Prints 11. The Artist as a Social Critic 12. The Artist as a Visionary A. Glory and Grandeur B. Earth, Heaven, and Hell C. The World Rediscovered D. Venus Revisited Portfolio E. The World in Order Portfolio F. The World Triumphant G. The World Dividing H. The War of Illusions I. The Quick and The Dead J. Summer Idyl K. Painting in Transition L. Acteon and the Atom. Bookseller Inventory # 000123

Metropolitan Seminars in Art (24 Volume Set)
Canaday, John
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Book Description: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1959. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Folio – over 12" – 15" tall. Twelve volumes on Great Periods in Painting (Protfolio’s A through L) and twelve volumes on art (Portfolio’s 1 through 12). All have original color prints in frontis envelope for safety, all are in very good + to fine condition. Extra postage required. E-mail for additional information. Bookseller Inventory # 000848

We’re going the last week of Dec. When should we go here?

Weekday are the best.