Have you ever heard individuals say visiting a museum is nice for you? Why is that? Grace Calame-Mars, a Nursing Skilled Growth Specialist, and Carolyn Halpin-Healy, an Artwork Educator at The Met, know the first-hand good thing about artwork in museums as a device to assist our well-being. Hear concerning the artwork remedy program they helped arrange for medical professionals at NYU Langone Hospital, the place close-looking workouts improved scientific statement abilities and strengthened empathy, which grew to become particularly useful instruments through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Friends: Grace Calame-Mars, nurse educator at NYU Langone and Carolyn Halpin-Healy, artwork educator

Objects talked about on this episode:

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, 1525–1569). The Harvesters, 1565. Oil on wooden, 47 x 63 3/4 in. (119 x 162 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York, Rogers Fund, 1919 (19.164)

Figure: Seated Couple, eighteenth–early nineteenth century. Mali, Dogon peoples. Wooden, metallic, H. 28 3/4 x W. 8 5/8 x D. 8 in. (73 x 21.9 x 20.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York, Present of Lester Wunderman, 1977 (1977.394.15)

Jacques Louis David (French, 1748–1825). The Death of Socrates, 1787. Oil on canvas, 51 x 77 1/4 in. (129.5 x 196.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Assortment, Wolfe Fund, 1931 (31.45)

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