At the MET – Johannes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid
September 22nd, 2009
This exhibition, organized to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of New York as “New Amsterdam,” features one of Vermeer’s most celebrated works, on loan for the first time from the Netherlands, and seen in the context of its creation in an era of exploration, travel, and trade, and in relation to the Museum’s own collection of Vermeers.
Free with Museum admission today is a lecture at 11:00 a.m., by Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at
1000 Fifth Avenue. New York, New York 10028.
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