The Metropolitan Museum houses a world-renowned complex of scientific research and conservation facilities, each of which serves as a training ground for conservators from around the world. Objects Conservation, Paintings Conservation, and Works on Paper are supported by and named for the Sherman Fairchild Foundation. In addition, the Museum maintains specialized studios for Asian art, costume, and book conservation.

The Cloisters, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Artdedicado art and architecture of medieval Europe, was built from architectural elements, both domestic and religious, dating from the twelfth through the fifteenth century. The building and its gardens closing TryonParque enFort located in northern Manhattan, are treasures in themselves.

The Museum's libraries contain books, periodicals, photographs, manuscripts, and other scholarly resources in printed and electronic formats. The Museum also maintains several specialized study centers with images, documentation, and actual objects on display or on reserve for examination by researchers.

As one of the greatest research institutions in the world, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts' Fellowship Program is dedicated to supporting the continued scholarly investigation into the Museum's encyclopedic collections and furthering the fields of art history, art conservation and scientific research.

Programs, activities, workshops, and printed and electronic information developed by the Museum's Education Department allows teachers to integrate art into their daily curricula and to consider the Met's collection a virtual extension of their classrooms.

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