Courageous Women of the Met Museum Tour

Celebrate Women’s History and Pride Month By Meeting Courageous Women in the Art of the Met.

Throughout history, there have been courageous women—brave, sometimes outspoken path-breakers who made themselves heard in a male-centric world.

The Met’s walls are full of examples of strong women who transcended their times. From an entire gallery dedicated to a female Pharaoh to paintings by and of famous suffragettes, the Met has a surprisingly rich collection of women who ruled, frightened, patronized, and politicked—in short, women who remain role models today.

During our fun and informative two-hour walking tour of the Met, you will discover:

• the queen who started Egypt’s Valley of the Kings
• the fertility goddess who preceded Zeus in the Greek world
• the female monsters of Ancient Greek mythology
• the first famous woman painter
• Marie Antoinette’s “marketing director”
• an 18th-century female scientist
• the courtesan who stared down the Jacobins of Revolutionary France
• the feminism of Mary Cassatt’s paintings
• the Met’s great suffragette donor

You’ll meet and learn about these and other compelling historical figures who refused to live their lives in silence.

Join us on a rare opportunity to see this phenomenal, private museum tour!