The Cloisters
The Cloisters is a museum in Fort Tryon Park, straddling the neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood, in Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum specializes in European medieval art and architecture, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Description: museum in New York City part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Also known as: “Cloisters”, “Met Cloisters”, and “The Met Cloisters”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Fuentidueña Apse and Dyckman Street station.
The Fuentidueña Apse
Church
The Fuentidueña Apse is a Romanesque apse dated 1175–1200 that was built as part of the San Martín Church at Fuentidueña, province of Segovia, Castile and León, Spain.
Dyckman Street station
Metro station
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The Dyckman Street station is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Dyckman Street and Broadway in Inwood, within northern Manhattan. It is served by the A train at all times. Dyckman Street station is situated 970 feet east of The Cloisters.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include University Heights and Morris Heights.
University Heights
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
University Heights is a neighborhood of the West Bronx in New York City. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are: West Fordham Road to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, West Burnside Avenue to the south and the Harlem River to the west.
Morris Heights
Neighborhood
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Morris Heights is a residential neighborhood located in the West Bronx. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: West Burnside Avenue to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the south, and the Harlem River to the west.
Spuyten Duyvil
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Spuyten Duyvil is a neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. It is bounded on the north by Riverdale, on the east by Kingsbridge, on the south by the Harlem River, and on the west by the Hudson River. Some consider it to be the southernmost part of Riverdale.
The Cloisters
- Categories: art museum, tourist attraction, curatorial department, and religion
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“The Cloisters” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “The Cloisters”
- Arabic: “متحف الأروقة”
- Armenian: “Քլոյսթերս”
- Basque: “The Cloisters”
- Catalan: “The Cloisters”
- Chinese: “修道院博物館”
- Chinese: “崔恩堡修道院”
- Czech: “The Cloisters”
- Dutch: “The Cloisters”
- Esperanto: “The Cloisters”
- Estonian: “The Cloisters”
- Finnish: “The Cloisters”
- French: “The Cloisters”
- German: “The Cloisters”
- Hebrew: “הקלויסטרז”
- Hebrew: “הקלויסטרס”
- Indonesian: “The Cloisters”
- Italian: “The Cloisters”
- Japanese: “クロイスターズ”
- Japanese: “クロイスターズ博物館”
- Japanese: “クロイスターズ美術館”
- Korean: “클로이스터스”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “The Cloisters”
- Persian: “دکلویسترز”
- Polish: “The Cloisters”
- Portuguese: “Cloisters”
- Portuguese: “The Cloisters”
- Russian: “Клойстерс”
- Spanish: “The Cloisters”
- Swedish: “The Cloisters”
- Turkish: “The Cloisters”
- Ukrainian: “The Cloisters”
- Ukrainian: “Клойстерс”
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