en-USArts & Entertainment, Museumshttp://metmuseum.org/feeds/images/met_podcast_logo.jpghttp://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/museum-highlights-italian?eid=R073_%7b20C5AED3-129C-4420-AFAF-3B6F038A5054%7d_20130522120000http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/museum-highlights-italian?eid=R073_%7b20C5AED3-129C-4420-AFAF-3B6F038A5054%7d_20130522120000<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​Questo tour presenta una selezione di opere d'arte di culture ed epoche diverse e vi portera' alla scoperta della collezione enciclopedica del Metropolitan incoraggiandovi inoltre a continuare ad esplorare il Museo a vostro piacimento.<br/>Discover the Museum's encyclopedic collection on this tour, which focuses on a selection of works of art representing different cultures and time periods and encourages visitors to explore the Museum on their own.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:00&ndash;1:00 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/american-art?eid=R146_%7b0BEB8915-2D16-458B-832D-0870DC8BC5E5%7d_20130522120000http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/american-art?eid=R146_%7b0BEB8915-2D16-458B-832D-0870DC8BC5E5%7d_20130522120000<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​This tour introduces visitors to the rich tradition of American art, from its mid-seventeenth-century colonial beginnings to the early twentieth-century panoply of subjects and styles.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:00&ndash;1:00 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/arts-of-china?eid=R146_%7bBD6DC2CB-47FF-4108-ABCC-8441E84156DB%7d_20130522120000http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/arts-of-china?eid=R146_%7bBD6DC2CB-47FF-4108-ABCC-8441E84156DB%7d_20130522120000<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​This tour introduces visitors to five thousand years of Chinese art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, sculpture, and decorative arts.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Wednesday, May 22, 12:00&ndash;1:00 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/musical-instruments-east-and-west?eid=R146_%7bB33A51AA-7250-402C-9FC0-8A302D14AD06%7d_20130522121500http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/musical-instruments-east-and-west?eid=R146_%7bB33A51AA-7250-402C-9FC0-8A302D14AD06%7d_20130522121500<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​An overview of the Museum's extensive collection of European, American, and non-Western instruments from prehistory to the present.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:15&ndash;1:15 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/cradle-of-civilization?eid=R146_%7b6AAA0929-74B0-4203-A234-6D712366F84D%7d_20130522121500http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/cradle-of-civilization?eid=R146_%7b6AAA0929-74B0-4203-A234-6D712366F84D%7d_20130522121500<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​Discover the extraordinary artistic achievements of the diverse cultures of the ancient Near East from 8000 <span class="small-caps">b.c.</span> to the rise of Islam in the mid-seventh century <span class="small-caps">a.d.</span><p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:15&ndash;1:15 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/old-master-paintings?eid=R146_%7b9BD83C09-D51A-462C-8BB4-633B3AFBD44B%7d_20130522123000http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/old-master-paintings?eid=R146_%7b9BD83C09-D51A-462C-8BB4-633B3AFBD44B%7d_20130522123000<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​A chronological overview of the Museum's distinguished collection of European paintings from the thirteenth through the eighteenth century.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:30&ndash;1:30 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/american-historic-interiors?eid=R110_%7b9E31413E-9AC9-4869-89AE-ADBF80821067%7d_20130522124500http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/american-historic-interiors?eid=R110_%7b9E31413E-9AC9-4869-89AE-ADBF80821067%7d_20130522124500<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​This voyage through the history and styles of American domestic spaces combines architectural elements, furnishings, silver, glass and other decorative and utilitarian objects.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:45&ndash;1:45 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/great-rooms-european-decorative-arts?eid=R047_%7b1FF4F144-6903-47E8-865E-07D6E918D7EF%7d_20130522130000http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/great-rooms-european-decorative-arts?eid=R047_%7b1FF4F144-6903-47E8-865E-07D6E918D7EF%7d_20130522130000<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​A survey of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Western European interiors and decorative arts, including architectural elements, artworks, and furnishings.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Wednesday, May 22, 1:00&ndash;2:00 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/events-at-the-cloisters/guided-tours/gardens-of-the-cloisters?eid=R019_%7bB9416110-4BF0-4E5F-B48A-4E0E4C101B93%7d_20130522130000http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/events-at-the-cloisters/guided-tours/gardens-of-the-cloisters?eid=R019_%7bB9416110-4BF0-4E5F-B48A-4E0E4C101B93%7d_20130522130000<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour at The Cloisters</p>​Offered Tuesdays through Sundays through the end of October, these tours of The Cloisters' medieval gardens include horticultural, architectural, and historical information.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Wednesday, May 22, 1:00&ndash;2:00 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/myths-gold-stone-ceramics-americas?eid=R012_%7bF8D806EA-D18D-45BB-9C80-333E1DCC72CE%7d_20130522131500http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/tours/myths-gold-stone-ceramics-americas?eid=R012_%7bF8D806EA-D18D-45BB-9C80-333E1DCC72CE%7d_20130522131500<p class="small-text date-text">Guided Tour</p>​Discover the splendors of ancient American art from the second millennium B.C. to the sixteenth century A.D.<p></p><p><span class="small-text date-text">Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 1:15&ndash;2:15 p.m.</span>​<br/> <p class="small-text" class="margin-top:7px;">Free with Museum admission</p>​</p>