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The doodle for today honors the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showcasing various artifacts. (Original Post)
niyad
Apr 2021
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(31,372 posts)1. 151st Anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In honor of a storied legacy of cultural enrichment for New Yorkers and international communities alike, todays Doodle celebrates the 151st Anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizensbusinessmen and financiers as well as leading artists and thinkers of the daywho wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. On this day in 1870, the museum was officially incorporated and soon after acquired its first work of art: a Roman sarcophagus.
The Met has come quite a long way from that first showing to become New Yorks largest art museum, with a permanent collection of over 1.5 million objects, spanning over 5,000 years from nearly every corner of the globe. A sampling of the many works of art found at The Met today are depicted in todays Doodle artworkincluding a Byzantine floor mosaic from 500-550 A.D., the armor of German Emperor Ferdinand I from the 16th century, an intricate traditional Lakota/Teton Sioux beaded dress, and the painting "Self-Portrait" by Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. from the 1940s.
Whether you're a Met regular or planning your first trip to the Museum, be sure to visit a certain blue ceramic hippopotamus from Egypts Middle Kingdom nicknamed William. An unofficial mascot of The Met, he might soon become your favorite part of the collection.
Happy anniversary to The Metand heres to many more!
https://www.google.com/doodles/151st-anniversary-of-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art
niyad
(113,232 posts)3. Thank you for sharing the anniversary information.
electric_blue68
(14,862 posts)2. It was pretty cool. I recognized the drawing of the building.