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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", is located in New York City and is the largest art museum in the United States, and is among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. Wikipedia*

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Metropolitan Museum of Art has hosted 6 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1995 Speech. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2012 with an average of 20,107 views per video. Most appearances with Harold Holzer (3). Most common tags: American Perspectives, Lincoln, Abraham, Arts & Literature.

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    Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

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    New Lincoln Books

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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Actor Richard Dreyfuss appeared on stage with historian Harold Holzer. They described the life of Ulysses S. Grant, former pr…

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