Traveling Exhibitions
Traveling Works of Art
Conservation Projects
Excavations
Fellows
Exchanges & Collaborations
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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.
Conservation Projects
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Ghent Altarpiece (Open), Jan and Hubert van Eyck, 1432, Saint Bayo's Cathedral, Ghent.
Ghent Altarpiece (Closed), Jan and Hubert van Eyck, 1432, Saint Bayo's Cathedral, Ghent.
Detail of paint cross-section reconstruction from Ghent Altarpiece under ultraviolet light (20x magnification). Layers (from the top): egg wash/charcoal drawing, insulation with leaded heated oil, drawing with silverpoint, chalk/glue preparation. Antibody-based techniques will be used to probe samples for egg and glue proteins in the corresponding layers.
The study of paint materials in Jan and Hubert van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece
Belgium, U.S.A.
2014
The study of Jan and Hubert van Eyck's polyptych Adoration of the Mystic Lamb is overseen by laboratories at Belgium's Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK/IRPA), as part of the painting's conservation and restoration in the Museum of Fine Art in Ghent (2012–2017). Collaboration between KIK/IRPA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes the use of novel technologies—developed by scientists in the Met's Department of Scientific Research—for the identification of proteinaceous intermediate layers used by the van Eyck brothers.
In May, researchers from KIK/IRPA visited the Met to receive training in the application of antibody-based techniques to authentically reconstructed paint samples. Genuine samples from the Altarpiece will be investigated at KIK/IRPA for the presence and distribution of protein media within layers of paint cross-sections. Such knowledge will prove important for future treatment and preservation of the Flemish masterpiece, while providing insights about painting techniques utilized by the van Eyck brothers and their contemporaries.
Partnered with The Mystic Lamb in the Laboratory 60 years after Paul Coremans. The Contribution of new analytical techniques. Research project, coordinated by Dr. J. Sanyova, Scientific department KIK/IRPA, Brussels.
Made possible by The Belgian Science Policy BELSPO financing through the research projects: MO/39/011 and SD-RI-04A and by the National Science Foundation under CHE-1041839.
In May, researchers from KIK/IRPA visited the Met to receive training in the application of antibody-based techniques to authentically reconstructed paint samples. Genuine samples from the Altarpiece will be investigated at KIK/IRPA for the presence and distribution of protein media within layers of paint cross-sections. Such knowledge will prove important for future treatment and preservation of the Flemish masterpiece, while providing insights about painting techniques utilized by the van Eyck brothers and their contemporaries.
Partnered with The Mystic Lamb in the Laboratory 60 years after Paul Coremans. The Contribution of new analytical techniques. Research project, coordinated by Dr. J. Sanyova, Scientific department KIK/IRPA, Brussels.
Made possible by The Belgian Science Policy BELSPO financing through the research projects: MO/39/011 and SD-RI-04A and by the National Science Foundation under CHE-1041839.
