AP® Art History Met Museum Tour
Curriculum works at the Met — reviewed with a Columbia art historian who used to work here.
This is a tour built for students preparing for the AP® Art History exam. We move through the curriculum works actually in the Met's collection: Ancient (Egyptian, Greek & Roman), Medieval and Renaissance, and Baroque to Modern (Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso).
The approach is interactive and inductive — I'll ask before I tell, so students build their own vocabulary and confidence in front of the objects.
At a Glance
Ancient → Medieval → Renaissance → Modern
We follow the AP® chronology as much as the museum allows — grounding each period in works students will actually be tested on. Egyptian and Greco-Roman sculpture; the Medieval galleries; European painting from the Renaissance forward; then modern (Van Gogh, Picasso, and their neighbors).
Where a curriculum work isn't held by the Met, we substitute the closest peer and I explain the connection.
About your guide
I've been visiting the Met since 1978, worked in the museum in 1985 (Department of Twentieth Century Architecture and Design), and studied Art History at Columbia. This tour is where all of that comes together — for students who want to be genuinely ready.
A Glimpse of the Walk
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