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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is home to the finest collection of Chinese masterpieces of any museum outside of China. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV.

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Learn more about the exhibition The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, on view at the Met October 24, 2008 – February 1, 2009: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/philippe_de_montebello_years/splash.aspx

Ian Wardropper, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Chairman, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, talks about the gifts of French decorative arts by Jayne and Charles Wrightsman, including the furnishing of the Museum’s period rooms.

Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection, this event takes place in the galleries of the exhibition highlighting the works of art acquired by the Met during the directorship of Philippe de Montebello. Curators speak about the relationships between institutions and donors as they stand in front of featured works of art.

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Learn more about the exhibition The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, on view at the Met October 24, 2008 – February 1, 2009: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/philippe_de_montebello_years/splash.aspx

Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection, this event takes place in the galleries of the exhibition highlighting the works of art acquired by the Met during the directorship of Philippe de Montebello. Curators speak about the relationships between institutions and donors as they stand in front of featured works of art.

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Learn more about the exhibition The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, on view at the Met October 24, 2008 – February 1, 2009: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/philippe_de_montebello_years/splash.aspx

Director Emeritus Philippe de Montebello discusses art collecting in America and how it has affected the collections of Museums like the Met.

Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection, this event takes place in the galleries of the exhibition highlighting the works of art acquired by the Met during the directorship of Philippe de Montebello. Curators speak about the relationships between institutions and donors as they stand in front of featured works of art.

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Learn more about the exhibition The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, on view at the Met October 24, 2008 – February 1, 2009: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/philippe_de_montebello_years/splash.aspx

Everett Fahy, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman, Department of European Paintings, speaks about the gifts of Jayne and Charles Wrightsman, including Vermeer’s “Study of a Young Woman” and Peter Paul Rubens’ “Rubens, His Wife, Helena Fourment, and One of Their Children”.

Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection, this event takes place in the galleries of the exhibition highlighting the works of art acquired by the Met during the directorship of Philippe de Montebello. Curators speak about the relationships between institutions and donors as they stand in front of featured works of art.

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Learn more about the exhibition The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, on view at the Met October 24, 2008 – February 1, 2009: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/philippe_de_montebello_years/splash.aspx

Curator Keith Christiansen speaks about the importance of two masterpieces of the Italian Trecento: Duccio’s “Madonna and Child” and Pietro Lorenzetti’s “The Crucifixion”.

Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection, this event takes place in the galleries of the exhibition highlighting the works of art acquired by the Met during the directorship of Philippe de Montebello. Curators speak about the relationships between institutions and donors as they stand in front of featured works of art.

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Learn more about the exhibition The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, on view at the Met October 24, 2008 – February 1, 2009: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/philippe_de_montebello_years/splash.aspx

Helen C. Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art, and coordinating curator of the exhibition The Philippe de Montebello Years, talks about how the exhibition was conceived and organized—an installation that takes the visitor through the history of collecting at the Metropolitan Museum during the directorship of Philippe de Montebello.

Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection, this event takes place in the galleries of the exhibition highlighting the works of art acquired by the Met during the directorship of Philippe de Montebello. Curators speak about the relationships between institutions and donors as they stand in front of featured works of art.

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Learn more about the exhibition The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, on view at the Met October 24, 2008 – February 1, 2009: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/philippe_de_montebello_years/splash.aspx

Standing in front of “Triumph of Fame”, from a set of The Triumphs of Petrarch, Director Thomas P. Campbell speaks about the history of tapestry collecting in early twentieth-century America—and the challenge of discovering significant pieces in good condition.

Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection, this event takes place in the galleries of the exhibition highlighting the works of art acquired by the Met during the directorship of Philippe de Montebello. Curators speak about the relationships between institutions and donors as they stand in front of featured works of art.

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This is the second elevator at The MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art) in New York City, NY. I don’t know the brand.

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New York ,april 2008

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