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The Met | How Do Artworks Last for Thousands of Years? | #MetKids Microscope @metmuseum | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Take a journey in The Met's time machine and learn how some objects can last for hundreds of thousands of years!

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#MetKids Microscope is a show about the science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Learn true stories about real discoveries from scientists at the Museum, and do some experiments on your own!

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00:00 Hop aboard the time machine!
00:37 The Met collection is OLD
00:53 Inorganic material vs. organic material
01:48 Let’s visit ancient Peru!
02:43 Climate control at The Met
03:22 Caring for the collection



Chief Digital Officer: Douglas Hegley
Executive Producer: Sarah Wambold
Director/Writer/Producer: Rachel Smith
Producer: Emma Vecchione
Project Manager: Maria Kozanecka
Animation Direction: Lisa LaBracio
Art Direction + Illustration: Tara Sunil Thomas
Animation + Additional Design: Sara Zarul Azham
Compositing: Lisa LaBracio
Narrators: Corin Wells, Marco Leona
Episode Consultants: Marco Leona, Anna Serotta, Joanne Pillsbury, Christine Giuntini, Isabel Stuenkel
Education Consultants: Darcy-Tell Morales, Merantine Hens
Original Music: Austin Fisher
Sound Mix: Dave Raymond
Production Design: Aurola Wedman Alfaro
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Nine Bifaces.
Acheulean, 700,000–200,000 BCE.
Flint, quartzite, dimensions vary.
Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and Friends of Arms and Armor Gifts, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, and funds from various donors, 2018 (2018.51.1–.9)

metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/754048

Feathered Panel.
Peru. Wari, 600–900 CE.
Feathers on cotton fabric, H. 29 × W. 83 7/8 in. (73.66 × 213.04 cm).
The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 (1979.206.467)

metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/312677

Comb (part of a set).
French. Paris, ca. 1830.
Gold, amethysts, 3 1/8 x 7 1/2 in. (7.9 x 19.1 cm).
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 (32.100.317)

metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/197155

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