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About The Met Around the World
The Met Around the World presents the Met’s work via the global scope of its collection and as it extends across the nation and the world through a variety of domestic and international initiatives and programs, including exhibitions, excavations, fellowships, professional exchanges, conservation projects, and traveling works of art.
The Met Around the World is designed and maintained by the Office of the Director.
Traveling
Exhibitions
The Met organizes large and small exhibitions that travel beyond the Museum's walls, extending our scholarship to institutions across the world. See our national and international traveling exhibition program from 2009 to the present.
Traveling
Works of Art
The Met lends works of art to exhibitions and institutions worldwide to expose its collection to the broadest possible audience. See our current national and international loans program.
Conservation
Projects
The preservation of works of art is a fundamental part of the Met's mission. Our work in this area includes treating works of art from other collections. See our national and international conservation activities from 2009 to the present.
Excavations
The Met has conducted excavations for over 100 years in direct partnership with source countries at some of the most important archaeological sites in the world. Today we continue this tradition in order to gain greater understanding of our ancient collections. See our national and international excavation program from the Met's founding to the present.
Fellows
The Met hosts students, scholars, and museum professionals so that they can learn from our staff and pursue independent research in the context of the Met's exceptional resources and facilities. See the activities of our current national and international fellows.
Exchanges & Collaborations
The Met's work takes many forms, from participation in exchange programs at partnering institutions and worldwide symposia to advising on a range of museum issues. These activities contribute to our commitment to advancing the work of the larger, global community of art museums. See our national and international exchange program and other collaborations from 2009 to the present.
There are currently no international activities in this region.
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Drawing of carved wooden frieze on a minbar originally in the Nur al-Din Mosque in Hama (Syria). The Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, eeh1523
Ernst Herzfeld Papers Digitization Project
France, Germany, United Kingdom, U.S.A.
2014–2016
The Ernst Herzfeld Papers contain photographs, drawings, watercolors, and notes produced by Ernst Herzfeld, a German archaeologist and art historian who was a leading figure in Near Eastern Studies during the early twentieth century. These materials document people, places, and artifacts from the Near East, including sites and historic monuments now damaged or altered, and are thus an important resource to scholars. Herzfeld's papers are dispersed between several institutions, including the Archives of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Museum fur Islamische Kunst, Berlin, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met's project aims to catalogue and digitize the portion of the Herzfeld Papers housed in the Department of Islamic Art. An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow will be working on the project at the Met.
This project is part of an inter-institutional effort to reunite Herzfeld’s archival and archaeological material online. Ongoing projects include digitization and online cataloguing of the Herzfeld Papers housed in the Freer and Sackler Galleries (funded by the Leon Levy Foundation), cataloguing and digitizing the finds from Herzfeld's excavations at Samarra housed in several European collections (initial research on the finds at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London funded by The British Institute for the Study of Iraq, Pilot Project Grant 2013), and 3-D documentation of artifacts and spaces from Samarra in the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin in anticipation of a new installation of the finds (directed by the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin, with funding from The European Regional Development Fund, State of Berlin).
Partners include The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The British Museum, London; Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin; Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin; and Musée du Louvre, Paris.
This project is part of an inter-institutional effort to reunite Herzfeld’s archival and archaeological material online. Ongoing projects include digitization and online cataloguing of the Herzfeld Papers housed in the Freer and Sackler Galleries (funded by the Leon Levy Foundation), cataloguing and digitizing the finds from Herzfeld's excavations at Samarra housed in several European collections (initial research on the finds at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London funded by The British Institute for the Study of Iraq, Pilot Project Grant 2013), and 3-D documentation of artifacts and spaces from Samarra in the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin in anticipation of a new installation of the finds (directed by the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin, with funding from The European Regional Development Fund, State of Berlin).
Partners include The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The British Museum, London; Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin; Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin; and Musée du Louvre, Paris.
