The Cloisters, once described as "the crowning achievement of American museology," is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Located on four acres overlooking the
Hudson River in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the building incorporates elements from five medieval French cloistersquadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or arcadeand from other monastic sites in southern France.
