Special Fright Night Halloween Tour of the Metropolitan Museum

Can't make the live event? No problem! You can watch the video recording at your convenience for 2 weeks.
Do you think of the Met as all Classical nudes and Renaissance Madonnas? Well, look again! In the obscure and hidden corners of the museum there’s a world of strange, unusual and sometimes chilling artifacts—things you’d never imagine are hiding in plain sight.
But they form part of our heritage, and reveal things about us that are a counterpoint to our traditional views about what constitutes art. On this intriguing two-hour tour you’ll:
Encounter the Met’s surprisingly large collection of corpses;
· Learn about the vases in which the ancient Egyptians stored mummified livers, entrails and lungs—and just how important those bits and pieces were for the afterlife;
· Find out about New Guinea’s headhunters, and see the hooks they hung their enemies’ skulls on;
· Learn why African power figures are stuck full of nails;
· Meet the Met’s only painting with two castrati; and
· Discover if the cradle that rocks itself will rock for you!
Once you’ve completed this tour, you’ll see the Met as more than just a house of art—it’s also a giant cemetery, a cabinet of curios and a map to the less-explored recesses of the human mind. And you’ll realize that in addition to celebrating beauty, art also explores anxiety, death, violence and our darkest fears.