The Cloisters Museum and Gardens in Northern Manhattan

The Cloisters Museum and Gardens in Northern Manhattan

The Cloisters museum and gardens, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. The Cloisters itself was assembled from architectural elements that date from the twelfth through the fifteenth century. Located in a spectacular four-acre setting overlooking the Hudson River with views of the George Washington Bridge, the building incorporates elements from five medieval cloisters—Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Bonnefont-en-Comminges, Trie-en-Bigorre, and Froville—and from other monastic sites located in southern France. It opened to the public in 1938. The building and its cloistered gardens—located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan—are treasures in themselves, effectively part of the collection housed there. The Cloisters’ collection comprises approximately three thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about the ninth to the sixteenth century. Follow this link for additional history of the Cloisters.

Views of the Gardens and Cloisters

View of Cloisters

GW bridge

c) Garden in Cloisters

f) Pear tree in garden

e) Fruit trees in Garden

d) another view of garden

Glass at the Cloisters

Maigelein beaker lower Rhine valley late 15th century

Tall Maigelein glass beaker, Germany late 15th century

Maigelein glass beaker, Germany late 15th century

Maigelein glass beaker, Germany late 15th century

Krautstrunk beaker Germany or The Netherlands 1480-1510

Krautstrunk glass reliquary beaker, Germany or Lowlands, 1480-1510

Krautstrunk glass beaker, Germany or The Netherlands, 1480-1510

Krautstrunk glass beaker, Germany or The Netherlands, 1480-1510 (3)

Krautstrunk glass beaker, Germany or The Netherlands, 1480-1510 (2)

Glass beaker with applied decoration, German Lower Rhine valley, early 16th century

n) Colorless glass beaker with applied decoration, Germany or Switzerland, Late 13th- early 14th century

u) Biconical glass bottle, Germany (Mainz), Late 15th century

v) Glass bowl with enamel decoration, Venice Italy, early 16th century