Under the Metropolitan.

The article narrates the author's experience in visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The museum is characterized as encyclopedic by its director Philippe de Montebello. It is encyclopedic in the sense that the museum is oriented toward research in addition to its role of displaying artistic works. There are millions of works of arts deposited in the museum. The museum has its preservation, restoration and research facility called the Antonio Ratti Textile Center. This facility occupies 25,000 square feet beneath the main floor of the museum's building.