Inside America's Treasure House: The Met
Inside America's Treasure House: The Met is a documentary on BBC4. Documentary series filmed inside America's biggest art museum as it prepares for its 150th anniversary, only to endure closure due to Covid, demands for greater diversity and financial disaster. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 3 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2024.
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Inside America's Treasure House: The Met
With a cash crisis, restrictions on visitor numbers and exhibitions, a new roof to pay for, and an imminent election causing alarm, friends and donors rally round to save the Met.
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The outcry following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 has the Met, during lockdown, examining its record on inclusion and diversity, and realising it must change.
Just as it is getting ready to celebrate its 150th anniversary celebrations, America's biggest art museum is forced to close by the pandemic. This is the inside story of its climb back to reopening.