Nasty Women of the Metropolitan

Throughout history, there have been nasty women—feisty path-breakers who make themselves heard. And the Met’s walls are full of them, as you’ll find out on the Nasty Women tour!

It might seem that the women in the Met are mostly Virgin Marys or bathing beauties. In fact, however, there are powerful and ambitious—even intimidating—women hidden throughout the collection.

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, role models for today’s liberated woman.

So come on our fun and informative two-hour walking tour of the Met, and learn about:

• 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 woman scientist
• the courtesan who stared down the Jacobins of Revolutionary France
• the feminism of Mary Cassatt’s paintings
• the Met’s great suffragette donor
  and much more

Come learn about woman of the past who persisted—and triumphed—on the Nasty Women of the Metropolitan tour!