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OUT PROFESSIONALS DARES YOU TO JOIN 'THE MET MACABRE,' OUR PRIVATE MUSEUM TOUR WITH PROFESSOR ANDREW LEAR. Would you ever have conceived of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a giant graveyard? Professor Andrew Lear, four-time winner of the Harvard Certifi
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OUT PROFESSIONALS DARES YOU TO JOIN 'THE MET MACABRE,' OUR PRIVATE MUSEUM TOUR WITH PROFESSOR ANDREW LEAR.
Would you ever have conceived of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a giant graveyard? Professor Andrew Lear, four-time winner of the Harvard Certificate for Excellence in Teaching, invites you to join him on Out Professionals' exclusive new tour, "The Met Macabre."
Set out at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 26 -- timed to Halloween, and the tour's only departures this year. Don't be caught dead missing it!
Discover what lurks in the museum that can terrify:
See the jars used by Egyptians to preserve mummified organs of dead pharaohs -- and learn why they used them
Marvel at African power figures stuffed full of nails by witch doctors, to stop the curses of sorcerers
See the hook on which headhunters hung the souls of their enemies
Survey the art collection of an aristocrat who vanished -- mostly likely eaten by cannibals
Finally … Will the cradle that rocks on its own, rock for you?
Professor Andrew Lear has taught art history and Classics at Harvard, Columbia and NYU. Lear is the founder of Oscar Wilde Tours, the first company to offer tours focused on LGBT history, and the winner of the Travel Industry’s 2016 Travvy Award for best escorted tour operator, LGBT; and of the Luxury Travel Guide’s 2016 award, LGBT Tour Operator of the Year.
Photos: Left, Kongo Nkisi Nkondi Figure, DR Congo, Before 1892. Center, "Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist," Andrea Solario (Italian, Milan ca. 1465–1524 Milan). Date: ca. 1507–9. Right, Canopic jar, Third Intermediate Period (721-664 BCE), Egypt.
WHAT’S UPLimited to 20 persons, today's tour departs promptly at 4 p.m. and lasts approximately two hours. Your Out Professionals ticket admits you to the Met’s galleries, cafe and store until 9 p.m. “The Met Macabre” is not an official Met offering. Halloween Alert: Museum security prohibits entry to anyone in costume; come as yourself.
WHERE - IMPORTANT; PLEASE READThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street. Subway: Q/4/5 to 86th Street, 6 to 77th Street. Ascend the main staircase and enter the Great Hall. We meet to the right, beside the 10-foot-tall Egyptian statue of a
Would you ever have conceived of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a giant graveyard? Professor Andrew Lear, four-time winner of the Harvard Certificate for Excellence in Teaching, invites you to join him on Out Professionals' exclusive new tour, "The Met Macabre."
Set out at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 26 -- timed to Halloween, and the tour's only departures this year. Don't be caught dead missing it!
Discover what lurks in the museum that can terrify:
See the jars used by Egyptians to preserve mummified organs of dead pharaohs -- and learn why they used them
Marvel at African power figures stuffed full of nails by witch doctors, to stop the curses of sorcerers
See the hook on which headhunters hung the souls of their enemies
Survey the art collection of an aristocrat who vanished -- mostly likely eaten by cannibals
Finally … Will the cradle that rocks on its own, rock for you?
Professor Andrew Lear has taught art history and Classics at Harvard, Columbia and NYU. Lear is the founder of Oscar Wilde Tours, the first company to offer tours focused on LGBT history, and the winner of the Travel Industry’s 2016 Travvy Award for best escorted tour operator, LGBT; and of the Luxury Travel Guide’s 2016 award, LGBT Tour Operator of the Year.
Photos: Left, Kongo Nkisi Nkondi Figure, DR Congo, Before 1892. Center, "Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist," Andrea Solario (Italian, Milan ca. 1465–1524 Milan). Date: ca. 1507–9. Right, Canopic jar, Third Intermediate Period (721-664 BCE), Egypt.
WHAT’S UPLimited to 20 persons, today's tour departs promptly at 4 p.m. and lasts approximately two hours. Your Out Professionals ticket admits you to the Met’s galleries, cafe and store until 9 p.m. “The Met Macabre” is not an official Met offering. Halloween Alert: Museum security prohibits entry to anyone in costume; come as yourself.
WHERE - IMPORTANT; PLEASE READThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street. Subway: Q/4/5 to 86th Street, 6 to 77th Street. Ascend the main staircase and enter the Great Hall. We meet to the right, beside the 10-foot-tall Egyptian statue of a
