The Cloisters Museum and Gardens

the Cloisters, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, sits high up on the ridge overlooking the City on one side and the Hudson river on the other side. John D. Rockefeller donated the Buildings and grounds. The Architect Charles Collen incoporated many of the medieval elements into the building itself. The Museum first opend to the public in 1938.

The Work featured includes primarily medieval Western European collections, including sculptures, stain glass, tapestries, paintings and metalwork.