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Inside the Met

Watch as the COVID-19 pandemic forces the Met to close its doors for the first time in history.

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The Met Museum, New York, as the Wangechi Mutu's sculptures are installed.

 Courtesy of Eddie Knox/© Oxford Films, 2021

The Met Museum, New York, as the Wangechi Mutu's sculptures are installed.

Watch Inside the Met on Friday, May 21 at 9pm on WITF. You can stream WITF TV live on our website and through the PBS Video app on Roku, Apple TV and iPhone and Android smartphones. The program is also available on-demand through the PBS Video app.

Go behind the scenes as the largest art museum in the Americas plans its 150th anniversary and responds to the coronavirus pandemic and calls for social justice

Five floors high and four city blocks long, spanning 2.3 million square feet and housing more than 1.2 million treasures from the past 5,000 years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is beloved by New Yorkers and renowned throughout the world.

The new three-part documentary series Inside The Met goes behind the scenes of the largest art museum in the Americas, as curators prepare to celebrate the iconic institution’s 150th birthday in 2020 through ambitious landmark exhibitions.

Plans for celebrations, however, are halted when the COVID-19 pandemic hits and The Met must close indefinitely. Then, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, the museum is forced to look inward and re-examine its record on diversity, inclusion and how it presents its collection.

Featuring interviews with artists, museum curators, conservators, directors and visitors, the series shows the 19th-century institution grappling with how to change and remain relevant in the 21st century

Watch Inside the Met beginning Friday May 21 at 9pm. Part two follows at 10pm and the final part of the series airs May 28.

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