Chinese Textiles

Ten Centuries of Masterpieces from the Met Collection - This installation, which explores the cultural importance of silk in China, will showcase the most important and unusual textiles from the Museum's collection.  Spectacular embroideries—including an imperial fourteenth-century canopy decorated with phoenixes and flowers, and a monumental late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century panel showing phoenixes in a garden—will also be on view, together with theatrical garments, court costumes, and early examples of badges worn at court to designate rank.
Friday and Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, January 1, and the first Monday in May.