The medieval collection in the main Metropolitan building, centered on the first-floor medieval gallery, contains about six thousand separate objects.

Director Peter Nesbit has also announced plans to renovate the original museum which will then house medieval and Renaissance collections.

(The exception, of course, is the Cloisters in northern Manhattan, which houses part of the museum's medieval collection.)

The medieval collection includes the world's largest number of Holbein works.

He worked in the Met's medieval collection as a volunteer in 1933 and joined a year later as a full-time assistant.

These decrees appear in the later medieval collections of canons.

During a 90-minute tour, each merry band will visit four collections: African, medieval, Asian and Egyptian.

Formulary (model documents), ancient and medieval collections of models for official writings.

They now hang in The Cloisters which houses the museum's medieval collection.