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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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Some Met APPEAR team members meet with Marie Svoboda (Conservator and APPEAR founder, Getty Museum). From left: Julie Arslanoglu (Research Scientist, Scientific Research), Evan Read (Associate Manager of Technical Documentation, Paintings Conservation). Marie Svoboda, Michael Gallagher (Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Paintings Conservation) and Dorothy Mahon (Conservator, Paintings Conservation).
Images of Portrait of a Young Woman in Red (A.D. 90–120; 09.181.6; Rogers Fund, 1909). Visible light illumination (center); infrared reflectogram showing underdrawing (right); map of the distribution of the element iron obtained through X-ray fluorescence mapping (left).
Silvia A. Centeno (Research Scientist, Scientific Research) (left) and Louisa Smieska (Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellow, Scientific Research) prepare Portrait of a Young Woman with a Gilded Wreath (A.D. 120–140, 09.181.7) for investigation by X-ray fluorescence mapping.
Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis and Research
AUSTRIA, GERMANY, HUNGARY, UNITED KINGDOM, U.S.A.
More than 1,000 Roman Egyptian panel portraits are housed in collections worldwide and while there is a rich body of scholarship from the cultural and art historical perspectives, to date, very few portraits have also been systematically examined and investigated from a technical perspective. Without the combination of both approaches, many questions remain unanswered, allowing earlier assumptions to persist. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was invited to partner with twenty-one institutions from five countries (to date) in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis and Research (APPEAR) database project. The project provides a platform to compile technical, scientific and historic information for the collective and comparative study of Roman Egyptian panel portraits. The Met’s comprehensive investigations of twelve exquisite and remarkably well-preserved portraits involves twelve members of staff and two Andrew W. Mellon Fellows from the Departments of Egyptian Art, Paintings Conservation, Objects Conservation and Scientific Research. Advanced, complementary non-invasive techniques reveal the materials and techniques of the artists and shed new light on some of the most spectacular works of art from antiquity ever created.