one of the important features of achaemenid art is the repetition of almost similar motifs and their consistency during this lengthy era. consequently, a large number of researchers consider the presence of the constant and pre-conceived patterns as necessity for stonecarving, sculptors and metalworkers. apparently, this coordination arising from similar repeated patterns is visible in the acha...

Benefactors ($2000 and above) Carnegie Corporation Fund Harvard University, Deparunent of History of Art and Architecture Institute of Fine Arts, New York University The Metropolitan Museum of Art National Gallery of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art P~inceto.n U~iversity, Department of Art and Archaeology Rice UmversJty, Department of Art History Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation Solow Art and Archi...

Documentation of art museum collections has been traditionally written by and for art historians. To make art museum collections broadly accessible, and to enable art museums to engage their communities, means of access need to reflect the perspectives of other groups and communities. Social Tagging (the collective assignment of keywords to resources) and its resulting Folksonomy (the assemblag...

E ric Breitung is a Ph.D. chemist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since moving into the world of art conservation after a job in industry, he has studied the dye chemistry of central Asian textiles, worked to find new ways to test degraded audio tapes for playability, and devised better coatings for silver museum piecesall using analytical techniques and other chemical lab methods. He spoke...

Hello class, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a sudden shortage of sculptures and needs several new ones to fill its shelves. Please break into groups so that each group can build a Lego tower. The director of the museum will be here in an hour to pick up the towers and put them in the museum with your names on them. Please do the best job you can; you don’t want to be professionally embarras...