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Hi there,
The Cloisters is a specialized branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Its collection is of Medieval European artworks, and it is geographically separate from the main site of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many facts about the Cloisters and its collections can be found at the Metropolitan Museum's website, <http://www.metmuseum.org/visit/visit-the-cloisters>.
As well as the Wikipedia entry for the Museum: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloisters>
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's website also has pages devoted to publications by the Museum, where you may find the book "A Walk through the Cloisters", giving introductory information about the site. This book appears as a primary result when searching the METpublications with "Cloisters" as a keyword, and brings up a few other publication results about the Cloisters that might interest you.
These results may also be available in a library near you. You can find them through Wordlcat.org at: <http://www.worldcat.org/title/walk-through-the cloisters/oclc/5029042&referer=brief_results>. This is a great website to discover library materials on subjects across the world, or to locate anything that might be at your local library for use.
If you like, many travel and tourism websites also provide site reviews and other general information about visiting the Cloisters:
<http://gonyc.about.com/od/museums/p/the_cloisters.htm>
<http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g60763-d106609-r62525000-The_Cloisters-New_York_City_New_York.html>
I hope this helps to find the facts you're looking for,
I'd be happy to help if you needed anything else!
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe Cloisters Museum is a Museum in New York. It overlooks the Hudson river and covers approximantly 4 acres. Its a museum of medevil art
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Crooks in Cloisters was created in 1964.
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The duration of Crooks in Cloisters is 1.63 hours.
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answer Cloisters were for monks to walk during bad weather. If a church or cathedral doesn't have cloisters it means that it never had monks attached to it - or perhaps the cloisters were destroyed during the Reformation.
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Crooks in Cloisters - 1964 is rated/received certificates of: UK:U
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The phone number of the Cloisters Library is: 212-923-3700.
