Rediscovering the Ancient Americas at the Met
By
Daniela Cobos
New York’s famed museum reintroduces its Americas collection with a fresh, future-facing vision.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on COP 30 After four years of renovations, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing reopened to the public on May 31. The occasion marked a refashioning of how one of the world’s leading museums presents the art of Indigenous cultures of the Americas, at a time when legacy institutions are grappling with what it means to decolonize their collections. Almost 700 objects—crafted in ceramic, gold, wood and stone—fill the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries. From Maya sculptures to Andean textiles...
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