metropolitan museum of art

100th blog entry. i knew this would have to be one heck of a museum. so i decided to go with a classic, the met. this is the museum i have been to the most (by far) over the last 3 years. it just seemed fitting for the 100th entry on my blog. (the picture is of the shrine on the 2nd floor of the met!)

i went without a particular exhibit or area in mind. i just sort of wandered...and i ended up wandering into a wing i had never been to before!

i wandered into the tutankhamun's funeral. this had different artifacts from his burial site although none of the real show stopper pieces. i loved the displays of the floral collars that some of the royalty was wearing. those were quite beautiful and unusual.

i then walked into the exhibits which were upstairs from the egyptian exhibits. i am not quite sure how i had never ended up there before. it landed me right near the exhibit, five thousand years of japanese art: treasures from the packard collection. this exhibit was magnificent. the exhibit seemed to go on forever. it really demonstrated the many influences on the japanese art landscape. the exhibit had numerous screens, statues, and pottery.

i also noted that the met had the art of illumination: the limbourg brothers and the belles heures of jean de france, duc de berry. i saw this exhibit at the getty in los angeles. here is a link to the new york times article about this exhibit.

while walking, i also crossed through the chinese, nepalese, indian and thai art exhibits. there was also a reconstruction of a traditional japanese shrine on the 2nd floor of the met. who knew?! (see picture above).

i couldn't ask for a better visit!

times visited: 13
time in museum: a little over an hour
overall: A