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Met's New Look Lets the Light In

American Wing reopens tomorrow

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted May 18, 2009 12:20 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its American Wing tomorrow after a refurbishment that was “all about transparency,” its chairman says. Where benches and shrubs once constricted movement, now visitors can sit on a fountain’s edge, look out on Central Park, and ride a glass elevator “through rooms you probably never knew existed,” writes Barbara Hoffman in the New York Post.

Sculptures are now arranged in “a kind of conversation,” with a bronze Diana aiming an arrow at a nearby angel. Visitors will travel through time as they move from period room to period room chronologically. Touch screens provide enlightenment on the exhibits' stories. A new “airy mezzanine” is packed with 300 ceramic pieces—and looks onto another construction site, proof that the Met’s still growing.

The Met's Renaissance Revival Parlor.
The Met's Renaissance Revival Parlor.   (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The refurbished wing is all about transparency, says its chair.
The refurbished wing is "all about transparency," says its chair.   (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Met's Samuel Hart Room.
The Met's Samuel Hart Room.   (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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