Clositer Museum

The Clositer  museum and garden dedicated to art and medieval Europe, the Metropolitan Museum of Art branch of architecture, religion, domestic and architectural elements, the date of the 15th century through the Twelfth Congress.
Buildings and the garden, located in the park in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon isolated, in their own wealth, effectively part of the collection. Corridor ", collected from about three million works of art from medieval Europe, dating from the ninth to the sixteenth century

Located in a spectacular four-acre setting, overlooking the Hudson River, architectural elements, combined with the five medieval monastery of Saint - Michel - Cuxa, St Guilhem-LE - desert, Bonnefont-EN - Coleman, Terry - EN - BigorreFroville monasteries and other sites located in the south of France. Three corridors branch museum feature gardens re-planted in papers and medieval poetry, garden documents and herbs, and medieval works of art such as tapestries, stained glass windows, and columns found in the capital of gardening information. Display for about three thousand pieces of works of art from medieval Europe, dating from the ninth to the sixteenth century, including the exquisite lighting manuscripts, stained glass, metalwork, ceramics, ivory, and tapestries, in this unique context.

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