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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.
Exchanges & Collaborations
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Official participants in the October 30 ceremony that took place at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph © Paul Porter / BFAnyc.com. (From left to right: Khalid Alsharif, Consul General in New York; Sheila Canby, Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge, Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Ali Ghabban, Curator and Vice President, SCTA; The Honorable Abdallah Almouallimi, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations; Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Emily K. Rafferty, President, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Honorable Joseph W. Westphal, Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Jennifer Russell, Associate Director for Exhibitions, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Navina Haidar, Curator, Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
HRH Prince Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, President and Chairman of the SCTA, and Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum, each signed both copies of the memorandum. Photograph © Paul Porter / BFAnyc.com.
After the ceremony, HRH Prince Sultan conversed with Metropolitan Museum representatives Jennifer Russell, Navina Haidar, and Emily K. Rafferty. Photograph © Paul Porter / BFAnyc.com.
Cooperation Agreement with Saudi Arabia Commission for Tourism and Antiquities
Saudi Arabia, U.S.A.
2014
In October 2014, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of agreement expressing mutual willingness to establish a long-term cooperative relationship. The agreement will establish a joint program in educational and technical cooperation, with the Metropolitan Museum providing training to Saudi museum personnel in scientific research and conservation, collections and museum management, museum education, and visitor services. Additionally the program will create opportunities for Metropolitan Museum staff to study collections in Saudi Arabia for scholarly purposes. Furthermore, the SCTA and the Metropolitan Museum will lend each other works of art from their respective collections, and will collaborate on temporary exhibitions that include artifacts from the National Museum of Saudi Arabia and the Metropolitan Museum.
Both HRH Prince Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, President and Chairman of the Board of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities, and Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum, signed the agreement. At the Metropolitan Museum, the project will most closely involve the curatorial departments of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Islamic Art.
Both HRH Prince Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, President and Chairman of the Board of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities, and Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum, signed the agreement. At the Metropolitan Museum, the project will most closely involve the curatorial departments of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Islamic Art.