"The New Greek Galleries"
2000-04-20 until 2000-12-31
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY, USA United States of America

Following several years of planning and construction, seven completely renovated and reinstalled galleries for Greek art are open to the public on the Museums first floor. This latest stage in a three-phase expansion of the exhibition space devoted to Greek and Roman art comprises the Mary and Michael Jaharis Gallery—the grand vaulted gallery that was formerly known as the Cypriot corridor, now fully skylit from above and clad in limestone walls as originally envisioned by McKim, Mead and White in 1917—and the six flanking galleries for Archaic and Classical Greek art, restored to their Neoclassical grandeur. The new galleries constitute the largest and most comprehensive permanent installation of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.

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