https://jjcweb.jjay.cuny.edu/history/making_objects_speak Portable Audio Guides for Teaching With Visual Culture in the Humanities Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:25:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 https://jjcweb.jjay.cuny.edu/history/making_objects_speak/index.php/cloisters-and-chaucer/ https://jjcweb.jjay.cuny.edu/history/making_objects_speak/index.php/cloisters-and-chaucer/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:50:39 +0000 admin http://jjcweb.jjay.cuny.edu/history/mosV2/?p=15 The Cloisters, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that incorporates elements of five medieval cloisters and houses a collection of medieval art, was from its inception meant to evoke the sense that the visitor was walking into the Middle Ages. The Cloisters is not a traditional museum as such: Its geographical inaccessibility is intended to mimic the experience of real medieval pilgrims, as they would climb the final steep elevation to glimpse their destination and view the road they had traveled; the elevation of Fort Tryon Park gives usjust such a vantage point. This Cloisters “pilgrimage” is designed to enrich courses in medieval literature and history.

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