he Met
, Premiering Fridays, May 21 and 28 on PBS, Explores the Legacy and Future of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Go behind the scenes as the largest art museum in the Americas plans its 150
th 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 150
For all of his life, Alan âChaunceyâ Beaverhead stood at the heart of tribal culture and tribal life on the Flathead Reservation. Raised with his brother Gene by their great-grandparents, Pete and Josephine Beaverhead, they were the most recent children to be raised to complete fluency in the Salish language. They were steeped in the culture and community of the QlÌispeÌ (upper Kalispel or Pend dâOreille) people who for thousands of years have been the guardians and caretakers of the Mission Mountains, Mission Valley, Flathead Lake and surrounding areas. For centuries, they have been centered around SnyelÌmn MqÌÊ·moqÌÊ·s (Place-Where-You-Surround-Something Mountains â Mission Range). Many QlÌispeÌ families have been based in the area from the branches of NmÌlaÌ SewÉ«lkÊ·s (Ravenâs Waters â Crow Creek) to KÌÊ·É«ncÌmeÌp (Waters of the Narrow Opening â Post Creek), where the Beaverhead home was located, a