| | | |  |  |  | |  | | | | Research Out Loud: Met Fellows Present | Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, May 7–22
Get an inside look at the cutting-edge research conducted by Met fellows in Research Out Loud: Met Fellows Present. Join this year's cohort for the latest in art history, preservation, interpretation, and visual culture, and discover interdisciplinary, creative approaches that bridge the visual arts and other areas of the humanities, sciences, and performing arts. Learn how to build a wooden sarcophagus, write like an ancient Greek, design a mosaic, and more. Whether you're an arts and culture professional, a scholar, or art-curious, this series of presentations and gallery programs offers a deep dive into research projects across The Met collection.
All in-person presentations in Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education, are free, though advance registration is required to attend on Zoom. Talks, tours, and hands-on activities are on-site only. Those in the Uris Center for Education are free; those in the galleries are free with Museum admission. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served
Learn more → |  | | | | Explorations—Designer Korina Emmerich and Material Collaboration in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing | Friday, May 22, 7–7:30 pm
Experience The Met collection anew as artists working across disciplines—including poetry, theater, design, and more—respond to works on view in encounters that can only happen at The Met. Join designer Korina Emmerich in the Arts of the Ancient Americas and Oceanic Art galleries in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing to consider how collaboration with communities and materials defines the production and meaning of textiles. Emmerich will be joined by performer and composer Mali Obomsawin during the program.
Presented in in celebration of the reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, featuring the Museum's collections of the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania.
Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is recommended. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served. Priority will be given to those who register.
Register now → |  | | | | Get Home Safe Book Launch with Rana Abdelhamid | Thursday, May 28, 6–8 pm
Join Rana Abdelhamid—author, organizer, and Founder and Executive Director of Malikah—for a powerful conversation with Elena Ketelsen González, Associate Curator at MoMA PS1, to celebrate Abdelhamid's new book, Get Home Safe: A Guide to Self-Defense and Building Our Collective Power.
Grounded in community care and collective action, Get Home Safe reimagines self-defense as a practice of healing, solidarity, and shared power. Drawing from frameworks developed through Malikah, Abdelhamid weaves together her lived experience as a Muslim woman, daughter of immigrants, and survivor of a hate-based attack with her training as a black belt, self-defense instructor, and community organizer in Astoria.
Get Home Safe will be available to purchase on-site with an exclusive pop-up presentation through The World's Best Borough Bookshop, based in Jackson Heights, Queens.
The evening will conclude with light refreshments provided by MOKAFÉ Coffee House, offering space to connect and continue the conversation.
Free, though advance registration is required.
Register now → |  | | | | Making History | Sunday, May 31, 2–3 pm
Join us for a series of lectures exploring the evolution of history painting with art historian Kathryn Calley Galitz. In this talk, discover an eighteenth-century revolution in history painting as artists shifted focus to contemporary events in response to rapid political and social change.
Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is required. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
Register now → |  | | | | College Night: Costume Art | Tuesday, May 12, 6–9 pm
Join us for this exclusive after-hours event featuring food, drinks, a DJ, and a dance floor in the Museum's iconic Great Hall. Enjoy art making, a temporary tattoo station (featuring designs made exclusively for the event by Ruben Toledo), a photo booth, a student dance performance, and exclusive access to several Met galleries, including the newly opened Condé M. Nast Galleries featuring the exhibition behind this year's Met Gala, Costume Art.
Designs by the finalists of the 2026 Costume Institute College Fashion Design Competition will be on display all night. We are delighted to share that this year's award for 3D Fashion Design will be presented by designer Anna Sui, while the award for 2D Fashion Illustration will be presented by fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo. Come by to check out the designs and cast a vote for the People's Choice award.
This event is free and open to currently enrolled college and university students with a valid student ID.
Register now → |  | | | | Teens Take The Met! (Ages 13–18) | Friday, May 15, 4–8 pm
Grab your friends and take over The Met for the night! Drop in for teen-only activities across the Museum, including art making, performances, music, and more. Discover what you can also do at over 60 NYC cultural and community organizations.
Doors open at 4 pm. Teens Take The Met! is free and open to all teens 13+ with a middle or high school ID. Just show up or RSVP now to get a free ticket. If you're a chaperone who'd like to come with a group of 10 or more teens, please email [email protected] for instructions.
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|  | | | | The Met Cloisters Late Night: Beasts and Beings | Thursday, May 21, 6–9 pm
Dragons, shapeshifters, and hybrid creatures await! Join us for a special after-hours evening to celebrate spring.
Wander galleries and gardens to discover wild, wondrous creatures that have captivated the human imagination for centuries. Sip, sketch, and socialize as you uncover the meanings behind these fantastical forms, from symbols of power and protection to expressions of fear, transformation, and desire.
Throughout the evening, enjoy live music and expert-led dance lessons, listen to pop-up chats from experts, spot creatures that call Fort Tryon Park home, try your luck at a special game of Lotería, and explore your creative side by designing your own mythical hybrid being.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas.
Tickets $50. Note: Space is limited; advance registration is required. Drink specials and light fare available for purchase. Activities are subject to change.
Register now → |  | | | | Met Signs Tour—The Met Cloisters Gardens | Saturday, May 16, 1–3 pm
For participants who are D/deaf or hard of hearing. Stroll through The Met Cloisters gardens and engage in conversations about art with a Deaf educator.
In American Sign Language only, without voice interpretation. Met Signs and Met Signs in the Studio prioritize the Deaf community. Due to limited space, this program is not for ASL students.
Accessibility: Stools
Pro-Tactile interpretation is available upon request with at least two weeks' notice.
A limited number of wheelchairs are available for use free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis. Ask at the Admissions Desk in the Main Hall.
Format: This program involves a tour led by a Deaf educator in the galleries. After the tour, there is a socializing opportunity with snacks or drinks.
Free, though advance registration is required. Space is limited.
Register now →
|  | | | | Family Afternoon—Fun with Raphael! | Sunday, May 10, 1–4 pm
Drop in for free, hands-on family fun to learn more about the artist Raphael. Join in on hands-on art making, tour artworks, make your own family portraits, and more. Families with children of all ages and abilities are welcome; recommended for children ages 3–11 years. All materials are provided. Come ready to look, imagine, and create!
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Raphael: Sublime Poetry.
Free; no Museum admission required. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
Learn more → |  | | | | Open Studio—Japanese Ceramics | Saturday, May 9, 1–4 pm
Discover the materials and techniques of Japanese ceramics. Learn how traditional Japanese tea bowls are made during a demonstration by artist Jeff Shapiro. Discover the anatomy of ceramics and design your own vessel inspired by works from The Met collection using paper.
Presented in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and in conjunction with the exhibition The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics.
Free with Museum admission; admission is free for children 12 and under with an adult, and a care partner accompanying a visitor with a disability. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
Learn more → | | | | Accessibility at The Met
The Met is committed to accessibility for all. For information about accessibility, programs, and services for people with disabilities at both Met sites, visit metmuseum.org/access. To request an access accommodation for virtual programs or online resources, email [email protected], or call 212-650-2010. For information about accessibility on our website, see our Website Accessibility Statement. | Events take place at The Met Fifth Avenue or The Met Cloisters unless otherwise noted.
For more information about the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, see Arts of Africa, Arts of the Ancient Americas, Arts of Oceania, Costume Art, Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas, Raphael: Sublime Poetry, and The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics.
The Met thanks the following for their generous support of fellowships at the Museum: Henry S. Blackwood Memorial Fund, Bothmer Fellowship Fund, Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund, Chester Dale Fellowship Fund, Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Carl Spielvogel, Douglass Foundation, Sherman Fairchild Foundation, The Getty Foundation, The Hagop Kevorkian Fund, Leonard A. Lauder and Anonymous Gifts to The Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, Mellon Foundation, J. Clawson Mills Charitable Trust, Gerald and May Ellen Ritter Scholarship Fund, Theodore Rousseau Fellowship Fund, Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Foundation, Diana and Harry Stern Fellowship Fund, Hanns Swarzenski and Brigitte Horney Swarzenski Fellowship Fund, Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, Marica and Jan Vilcek, Polaire Weissman Fund, and Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship Fund.
Events and programming related to the reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing are made possible by the Breyer Family Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Thompson Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by Stephen M. Cutler and Wendy N. Zimmermann, Kyveli and George Economou, Ed and Dale Mathias, the Mex-Am Cultural Foundation Inc., and two anonymous donors.
Public programs at The Met Cloisters are made possible in part by The Helen Clay Frick Foundation.
The College Fashion Design Competition is made possible by the Doris & Stanley Tananbaum Foundation in memory of Doris Tananbaum.
Teens Take The Met! is made possible by the Gray Foundation.
Bus transportation for Teens Take The Met! is supported by Council Member Gail Brewer.
For Education program funders, visit metmuseum.org/educationfundingsupport.
For MetLiveArts program funders visit metmuseum.org/metliveartssupport.
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Images: Shirt, Moche artist(s), 500–850 CE, Peru, Huarmey Valley (?). Camelid hair, cotton, H. 34 1/4 x W. 58 in. (87 x 147.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986 (1987.394.706) | Photo of Rana Abdelhamid by Nalafem | Collage, top: Robert Colescott (American, 1925–2009). Knowledge of the Past Is the Key to the Future: Some Afterthoughts on Discovery (detail), 1986. Acrylic on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1987 (1987.166) © The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; bottom: Emanuel Leutze (German American, 1816–1868). Washington Crossing the Delaware (detail), 1851. Oil on canvas, 149 x 255 in. (378.5 x 647.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of John Stewart Kennedy, 1897 (97.34) | Teens Take The Met! illustration by Jiaqi Wang | Family Afternoon photo by Ninja Ningyi Jiang | All other photos by Argenis Apolinario and Filip Wolak | | | |
