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  • She might go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and see what's going on with the armor and costume collections, or to that part of the Met called the Cloisters which is on an island and has tapestries.

    Where I Been, Doing Stuff. karenhealey 2010

  • Reigning over the north end of Manhattan with unequaled views of the Hudson, the Cloisters is the elegant uptown sister of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010

  • Also visit The Cloisters, which is the museums other site located in Fort Tryon Park and completed in 1938, it is a separate building dedicated solely to medieval art.

    MUESEUMS GLORY 2008

  • The Cloisters is a branch museum whose mission is to exhibit the art and the architecture of Western Europe and Romanesque Gothic period.

    New Yorkers Experience Medieval Europe in Museum Exhibit 2007

  • The Cloisters is a rare opportunity to exhibit the art of the Middle Ages in an architectural setting that evokes medieval building, says Peter Barnet who is curator in charge of medieval art at The Cloisters.

    New Yorkers Experience Medieval Europe in Museum Exhibit 2007

  • The Cloisters is a rare opportunity to exhibit the art of the Middle Ages in an architectural setting that evokes medieval building, says Peter Barnet who is curator in charge of medieval art at The Cloisters.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • The Cloisters is a branch museum whose mission is to exhibit the art and the architecture of Western Europe and Romanesque Gothic period.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • There is in New York a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art called the Cloisters.

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

  • There is in New York a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art called the Cloisters.

    TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg 1995

  • Archbishop Rostaing d'Hyères issued a pastoral letter appealing to the Faithful to aid him in the re-building of a new Cathedral; and it may be reasonably supposed that the nave which is at present the south aisle, the baptistery, and the Cloisters were the buildings that were dedicated less than fifty years later.

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

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