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Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions -... →
Technology is in fact one of the most exciting things that's happened to museums today - but one has to be careful about where one uses it. For... →
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness... →
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the... →
The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.
I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's... →
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current... →
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.
My day starts at 8 in the morning. I have meetings through the day into the evening and very often dinners and benefits at night. This is nonstop.
My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience... →
What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that... →
When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London... →
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