How a thief and war hero became the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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How a thief and war hero became the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In this episode Alyssa shares the story of Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
You’ll learn about his adventures as a war hero, his excavation and collecting that put him on the map, and a special story about what days the museum is open and what Luigi thought about it all.
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*Rogues' Gallery The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum* by Michael Gross
The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Howard Hibbard
Making The Met by Andrea Bayer and Laura D Corey
Podcast episode about The Met
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