How can I learn about a work in the Museum’s collection?
There are several ways.
- Many works in the collection are reproduced and discussed on the Museum’s Web site. The Permanent Collection Advanced Search enables you to search the Works of Art area by various categories, including artist, title, and nationality. In addition, the Museum’s Provenance Research Project, a list of all European paintings in the collection with an incomplete provenance for the Nazi era, is available online and lists all such paintings alphabetically by artist.
- The Timeline of Art History places objects from the collection in various chronological, geographic, and thematic contexts.
- Many works of art in the Museum’s collection are reproduced in various Metropolitan publications; visit The Met Store online.
- Many Museum publications may be consulted in the Nolen Library and Teacher Resource Center in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education, and to qualified researchers in the Thomas J. Watson Library. Consult WATSONLINE, the online catalog of the Museum’s libraries, to determine the location and availability of a particular book.
