Foot and Fire

Using the same-day visit ticket at the main The Metropolitan Museum of Arts or The Met, one can head to The Cloister, a branch of The Met that houses all medieval age pieces. The art pieces transport one to Europe and cathedrals and chivalry and Dan Brown stories.  I gave out this tip in my earlier post. TIPS: On same day entrance to The Met, one can head to picturesque The Met Cloister in Fort Thryon. The bus M4 leading to it is just a block away crossing from The Met. And btw, if you're with a NY resident, you can come in as guest. The resident has to just give a donation.  And the Garden is a wonderful place to recharge after 3 hours of museum walk at tge main The Met.  The pieces are heavy but I think the unicorn room filled with unicorn paintings will transport one to a dreamy, mythical, magical world of unicorns.

I mentioned in my earlier blog that the other thing apart from French Painter Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates painting, I gushed over the Egyptian relics. Having seen a real mummy with intricate bandage, met a Sphinx and scrutinized a Mentuhotep statue in person gave me an inexplicable joy. I read somewhere that The Met or the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one Museum that you have to go to if you have to choose one, and now, I agree. The African Origin of Civilization with Egyptian Art in Gallery 136  Floor 1. But see more in Galleries 304, 376, 455, 550, 601, 681, 753, 828, 957, 964, Ground Floor, Floors 1 & 2.  The mummy that gave real face to the mummies we just saw in movies. The fabric used is sturdy and the latticework in wrapping the body is intricate, not like it's just wrapped by a roll paper.  Dutch masters were a real find too and I was lucky to have seen a Rembrandt and a ...