Metropolitan Museum's Main Building and Cloisters Observe Memorial Day as Final 'Met Holiday Monday'
After ten years of opening to the public on the Mondays of holiday weekends, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters museum and gardens will observe the final "Met Holiday Monday" on Memorial Day (May 27). The Museum's main building and The Cloisters, which is located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan, have traditionally been closed on Mondays. BeginningJuly 1, both locations will be open to the public seven days a week.The Met will have two exhibitions on view on Holiday Monday devoted to the American Civil War-the event that inspired the creation of the Memorial Day holiday.Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum, stated: "The public's enthusiastic response to Met Holiday Mondays over the last decade has shown that there is an interest as well as a need for additional hours for the public at both of the Museum's locations. So as we conclude the current series of Met Holiday Mondays, we are initiating on July 1 our new seven-day schedule to provide even more access to the Metropolitan's collections and programs."
In the Metropolitan Museum's main building, at 82nd Street and Fifth Avenue, several exhibitions will be available. Photography and the American Civil War considers the evolving role of the camera during the nation's bloodiest war through more than 200 works; The Civil War and American Art proposes new readings of many familiar masterworks created between 1852 and 1877, in which American artists respond to the Civil War and its aftermath (both exhibitions on view through September 2).The newly opened PUNK: Chaos to Couture examines punk's impact on high fashion from the movement's birth in the 1970s through the present day (through August 14). And Memorial Day is the final opportunity to seeImpressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, a revealing look at the role of fashion in the works of the Impressionists and their contemporaries (throughMay 27).
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