Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Danny Danziger

Book Overview

A unique oral portrait of the Met, drawing on interviews with everyone from the director to the security guards The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the greatest museums in the world. It is an enormous place that takes up five city blocks and has more than two million square feet of space, filled with treasures everywhere the eye can see. There are exquisite vases, jewelry, tapestry, baseball cards, Egyptian mummies, sculptures, and furniture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067003861X
• ISBN13: 9780670038619
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great Book

This is fabulous book, but then again there's a chapter about me, so perhaps you should ask someone else.

I also couldn't put it down!

What a rich, generous, amazing book! Perhaps fifty different people from curators through trustees, security people, and cleaning staff show us how they all work together to make one of the greatest museums in the world. From the extremely wealthy trustee to the waitress with aching feet, it shows the human faces behind the priceless art in New York's Metropolitan Museum. We know about the life of Van Gogh; now we can learn about the people who serve the place which keeps his work safe for the world to see. To the author: thank you so much!

Terrific idea for book; wonderfully executed

It's so easy to be overwhelmed by the Metropolitan Museum. The place is huge; there is so much to see, and the crowds and noise can be disconcerting. After reading Danny Danziger's book, I'm sure I will feel differently on my next visit. The author not only wet my curiousity about the different exhibits, he humanized the museum with his portraits of the dedicated, definitely unique people behind the scenes. "Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitcan Museum of Art" is a winner--entertaining and enlightening.

Perfect Book for the Art Critic & Art Lover

These are interviews of the people who have helped make the Met the greatest museum in the world. They range from the director to the security guard to the cleaner along with the multimillionaire benefactors. The perfect gift for the art critic and art lover.