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Cloisters (Museum)

LC control no.n 80086693
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingCloisters (Museum)
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Variant(s)Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Cloisters
New York (City). Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cloisters
See alsoMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters
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Hierarchical superior: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Beginning date1938
LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
Field of activityArt, Medieval Architecture, Medieval
Found inMetmuseum WWW home page, May 13, 2004: The Cloisters (branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe; located in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park; formally dedicated May 10, 1938) Medieval Art (founded in 1933 as the Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters; the Museum's medieval holdings are administered by a single curatorial department)
Associated languageeng