In 1866, a group of New York’s finest decided that their fair city needed a museum. It would be a big museum. An important museum. A “national” museum that would bring great art and art ...

But before you go on a museum adventure, as in the fictional story by E.L. Konigsburg, in which an art collector, Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, guides children who were hiding at the Met in exploring ...