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Thursday, March 28, 2024


Exhibition Public - USA & Canada

The Art of Collecting Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions, 2003–2014

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, New York, USA
Nov 11, 2014 To Dec 06, 2015


Detail: The permanent collection of the Department of Arms and Armor is one of the most encyclopedic in the world, rivaled in its scope and depth only by the Royal Armouries in England. To highlight the ongoing development of the collection's multicultural and interdisciplinary nature, this exhibition will focus on approximately thirty works from Europe, the United States, Japan, India, and Tibet acquired between 2003 and 2014. Beyond the well-established categories of finely decorated armor, edged weapons, and firearms, the selection will feature drawings and prints, textiles, and other materials that are vital, but often unrecognized, aspects of the understanding and appreciation of arms and armor as a universal art form.

Works on paper, textiles, and other select pieces will be rotated two to three times during the course of the exhibition.

Phone No.: 212-535-7710
Site URL: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/art-of-collecting-arms-and-armor

Dagger and sheath
Dagger and sheath
Nepal
1650–1700.
Ivory, steel, silver
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2006 (2006.441a, b)

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