I’ve been trying to visit the Cloisters since, oh, probably the mid-1990s. Finally. We made it. Very happy we did, especially after seeing the gardens. And the unicorns.
The Cloisters is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Here’s an overview, from the Cloisters Web site:
The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, was assembled from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, that date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century.
The building and its cloistered gardens—located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan—are treasures in themselves, effectively part of the collection housed there. The Cloisters’ collection comprises approximately three thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about the ninth to the sixteenth century.
The famous Unicorn tapestries:
One of the gardens:
Greg and Sam in the herb garden:
More, after the jump.
This one’s for you, Boo:
Things that make you go ‘hmmm.’:
Chillen:
Good times. We’ll be back.
