Gold: A Book and Kit

by Metropolitan Museum of Art

In the tradition of the best-selling Fun With Hieroglyphs, this combination book and activity kit offers readers not only a glimpse into how this precious metal was used throughout history, but a chance to create some art themselves. 75,000 first printing.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published November 3, 1998

About the author

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, (colloquially, the “Met”) is the largest art museum in the United States.

It was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."