Watch Episode 1, “Looking back to look forward,” in which Met image archivist Stephanie Post, educator and former-Project Runway host Tim Gunn, and New York City Ballet dancer Silas Farley share how their encounters with history and the Museum inform their sense of self and their creative practices.

Watch Episode 2, “Breaking down barriers,” in which Chef and Author Yotam Ottolenghi speaks about how food and art can create community, Co-Founder of the Muslim Bar Association Asim Rehman reflects on how he began forming his Muslim American identity through a childhood visit to The Met, and Independent Curator and Art Historian Lowery Sims talks about her role in bringing diversity to The Met collection of contemporary art.

Watch Episode 3, “Being seen,” in which Jodi Archambault, artist and former policy advisor to President Obama, speaks about how the display of Native American art in museums affects how visible she feels as an Indigenous woman in America.

Watch Episode 4, in which Jenita Pettway, Met software quality assurance specialist, connects her everyday experience as a Black woman to the powerful words in a work by Glenn Ligon; and Ariun Sanjaajamts, founder of the New York Mongolian Cultural Council, unexpectedly discovers her Mongolian heritage and a new place to share it.

Watch Episode 5, in which Michael Zacchea, retired Marine Lt. Col. and author, processes his post-traumatic stress in the ancient Greek and Roman art galleries after returning home from the Iraq War.

Watch Episode 6, in which Daniel Bergmann, an Undergraduate Degree Candidate at Harvard University with autism, tells the story of how childhood visits to The Met’s koi pond led to the most important breakthrough in his life. It was only when he learned to spell at age twelve, that he could tell his parents, Meredith and Michael Bergmann, about his discovery.

Watch Episode 7, in which Met Assistant Buildings Manager Angela Reynolds discusses how her recovery from a recent accident renewed her compassion and respect for the essential staff working during the pandemic; Gretchen Rubin, Author of "The Happiness Project," reflects on how her new project to visit The Met every day in 2020 was upended by the Museum’s closure; and Artist Hai-Hsin Huang looks back on her drawings of Met visitors as if they are postcards from a time before the pandemic. All interviews were filmed remotely, and all footage of the empty Met was collected from essential staff who generously filmed with their smartphones during their shifts.

Watch Episode 8, in which Linbania Jacobson tells the story of how her husband's dementia diagnosis led them to a program at The Met, which affirmed his humanity and gave meaning and joy to her role as a caregiver. Linbania, now a Volunteer with Met Access Programs, says, “I have found my new life.”

Watch Episode 9, in which Tomás Vega, a paralegal, describes his lifelong dream to work at The Met and how he finally had the chance to make that a reality when he received DACA status; Sue Jeiven, a tattoo artist, explains how vitally important The Met became to her when faced with a diagnosis of terminal breast cancer; and Ahmed Badr, founder of Narratio.org, and author of While the Earth Sleeps We Travel, tells how being a resettled Iraqi refugee gave him a unique understanding of the tensions at play in the Ancient Near Eastern galleries, which helped him gain power over his own story of displacement.

Watch Episode 10, in which Paul Konigsburg, E.L. Konigsburg’s son, traces his mother’s inspiration for “The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,” her beloved book about two children who run away from home to live in The Met, and artist Nikhil Chopra reflects on living in The Met for nine days during his performance art piece last year.

Watch Episode 11, in which Dariel Vasquez, Co-founder & Executive Director, Brothers@, describes how he didn’t feel welcome at The Met, even though he grew up in nearby Harlem. His first visit was on a class trip, and seeing the confidence and enthusiasm of his professor Teju Cole, a fellow Black man, at the front of the class dramatically transformed the discomfort he felt into a sense of belonging.

Watch Episode 12, in which artist Maira Kalman recounts her "love affair" with The Met on Friday nights; designer Lillian Tong and poet Chris Hosea describe how they first encountered each other at The Met; speechwriter Jared Spencer explains why he proposed to his husband, Joshua Dumas, a technologist, at The Met; and art educator Jim Kuhlman keeps the memory of his wife alive through annual visits to the American Wing courtyard.