Ghost Stories: A Mysterious, Macabre Tour in the Metropolitan Museum
We offer a unique way to explore the Metropolitan Museum, through carefully curated, themed, interactive tours. We include discussion, activities, and handouts to create a distinctive experience. Tourgoers will explore works of art from around the world and from many cultures, looking at connections among them, and exploring their relation to the theme.
From the spooky to the scary, the macabre to the mysterious, the ghostly to the ghoulish, the interactive “Ghost Stories” will take visitors on a tour of things frightful in the Metropolitan Museum. Participants will travel across cultures and across time to see Flying Dutchmen and funerary masks, still lifes and sculpture. We’ll look at Egyptian, American, and European works of art, to name a few, plus do a fun activity. All the while, we’ll look at how different cultures depict the fearsome and the gruesome, in pursuit of what scares us…and why. This tour is recommended for children 9 and up.
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Ghost Stories: A Mysterious, Macabre Tour in the Metropolitan Museum
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ghost Stories tour: From the spooky to the scary, the macabre to the mysterious, the ghostly to the ghoulish, the interactive “Ghost Stories” will take visitors on a tour of things frightful in the Metropolitan Museum. Participants will travel across cultures and across time to see Flying Dutchmen and funerary masks, still lifes and sculpture. We’ll look at Egyptian, American, and European works of art, to name a few, plus do fun and spooky activities. All the while, we’ll look at how different cultures depict the fearsome and the gruesome, in pursuit of what scares us…and why.
Inclusions
- Tickets are good in the museum after the tour ends
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting / End Points
- Please meet your guide at the giant statue of a seated Pharaoh in the Great Hall--it's to the right of the Info Desk in the center. If you're going to be late, please call or text 917-513-4081 and your tickets will be left at the Group Check-in Desk with the name of the tour and the first stop.
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Ticket Redemption
Please find your guide on the museum-entrance side of the giant pharaoh statue in the Museum’s Great Hall. It will be to visitors’ right at they enter the museum.The guide will hold a sign with the name of the tour. She wiil confirm the booking and give visitors a paper ticket.
