The Cloisters Private Tour - Sold Out
Join Members and their guests for a private tour of The Cloisters, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, used to exhibit the museum's extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe.
The Cloisters is situated on a hill overlooking the Hudson River, and incorporates parts from five European abbeys which were disassembled and shipped to New York City, where, between 1934 and 1939, they were reconstructed and integrated together with new buildings in the medieval style designed by Charles Collens. The area around the buildings was landscaped with gardens planted according to horticultural information obtained from medieval manuscripts and artifacts, and the structure includes multiple medieval-style cloistered herb gardens.
The museum and adjacent gardens within Fort Tryon Park, were created through grants and endowments from philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who also bought and donated several hundred acres of the New Jersey Palisades to the State of New Jersey on the other side of the Hudson River to preserve the view for the museum.
The museum was designed by Charles Collens who incorporated parts from five cloistered abbeys of Catalan, Occitan, and French origins. The Cloisters collection contains approximately five thousand European medieval works of art, with a particular emphasis on pieces dating from the 12th through the 15th centuries. Notable works of architecture include the Cuixà cloister, with an adjacent Chapter House; and the Fuentidueña Apse from a chapel in the province of Segovia. Among the works of art are seven Flemish tapestries depicting The Hunt of the Unicorn, Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece, and the Romanesque altar cross known as the Cloisters Cross or Bury St. Edmunds Cross, which was acquired under the curatorship of Thomas Hoving.
$25 per person. 11:00am tour begins. For Members that wish to travel via subway together, we will be meeting at The Cornell Club-New York and departing promptly at 9:45am. Advance reservations required by Wednesday, September 16th, at which time they are considered final sale.
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