Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Dates
- Existence: 1870-
Biography
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY was founded in 1870 by a group of American businessmen, financiers, leading artists, and thinkers, who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. Its collections date from prehistory through the present day and come from all parts of the world.
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
[American Designer Showings] Costume Institute Release Nov 1992, 1992
This folder contains press releases and drafts of press releases for the 1992 "Fashion and History" exhibition at the Costume Institute.
[American Designer Showings] MET Costume Institute, 1992-2001
This folder contains press clippings, correspondence, press releases, press contacts, lists of attendees pertaining to events held at the Costume Institute.
[American Designer Showings] MET Costume Institute Press Preview Dec 7 1992, 1992
This folder contains press releases for the 1992 exhibition "Fashion and History" at the Costume Institute.
[American Designer Showings] MET Museum 1992, 1990-1992
This folder contains correspondence, press clippings, invitations, press contacts,
[American Designer Showings] Metropolitan Museum of Art (all years), 1966-1981
This folder contains correspondence with the Metropolitan Museum of Art pertaining to the donation of slides from the American Designer Showings series.
[American Designer Showings] The MET 1997, 1997
This folder contains an invitation letter from Anna Wintour to attend a Versace retrospective at the Costume Institute and an invitation to the Board of Trustees dining room at the Met.
[American Designer Showings] The MET 1998, 1998
This folder contains a schedule of Met exhibitions from January- April 1998.
[American Designer Showings] The MET Costume Institute 1987, 1987
This folder contains correspondence and budget information pertaining to the 1987 Costume Institute exhibition "American Fashion 1900-1960."
[American Designer Showings] The Met Museum Costume Institute Diana Vreeland Fund 1990, 1990-1993
This folder contains correspondence, lists of chairmen, stationary and invitations pertaining to the establishment of the Diana Vreeland Fund at the Costume Institute.
American Institute of Architects Foundation, 1979
This folder contains correspondence, invitations, press clippings, donation records and a programs for the Fashion of the Hapsburg Era: Austria-Hungary exhibition held at the Costume Institute.