Medieval Europe Reassembled Above The Hudson River
Step into reassembled medieval chapels, arcades, and gardens at the Met's uptown branch above Fort Tryon Park.
🏰 The medieval halls
The Met Cloisters opened in 1938 on a bluff in Fort Tryon Park, assembled from architectural elements of several French medieval abbeys. Vaulted chapels, Romanesque and Gothic arcades, and three planted cloister gardens frame galleries of tapestries, stained glass, and carved stone. The seven Unicorn Tapestries hang in their own room, their millefleur backgrounds still vivid after five centuries. Stone benches sit beside herb beds that follow medieval planting records, and the Hudson opens through the windows to the west. Rated 4.8 across more than nine thousand reviews, it holds a hush rare for a Manhattan museum.
