Museum Masterpieces: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum Masterpieces: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum Masterpieces: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

No other museum covers the history of humanity and its achievements as thoroughly as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In these 24 visually rich, half-hour lectures, Professor Richard Brettell takes you through The Metropolitan Museum of Art from front to back, from bottom to top, introducing practically every department in the museum. Each is a museum unto its own, representing one of the world’s finest collections in its field. You will see an astonishing number of works—more than 400 in all.

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