修道院博物馆是大都会博物馆的分馆，位于上城190多街的 Fort Tyron Park内，通常游客不多，是一个比较幽静的好去处。
    昨天顺道前往，这是手机拍摄的最新照片。

    重要预告：9月30日，2012年度纽约中世纪节就在本修道院所在的公园举行，色友们可以去拍摄欧洲风情的古装照片，主办方预计有四五万观众参加。
        英文详情在文章后面，也可以参考本人去年的博文：
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纽约中世纪节参考资料：

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The 2012 Festival will be held on
Sunday September 30th, 2012 from 11:30AM to 6 PM.

Who Produces The Festival?

This years festival will be the twenty-eighth presented by the Washington Heights & Inwood Development Corporation, a privately and publicly supported not-for-profit corporation. The event is produced in conjunction with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

How Is The Festival Supported?

The City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation, in recognition of the importance of the festival to the City and to the entire metropolitan area, is providing half the total budget for this years faire, and has given substantial support since 1983. Past festival sponsors have included: the office of the Manhattan Borough President, Con Edison, David Rockefeller, WNCN Radio, the Lila Acheson Wallace Fund, the Samuel Newhouse Foundation, major New York City banks, the New York State Council on the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Neighborhood Fund. Additional support comes from craft and food vendor fees and individual donations by festival visitors.

Corporate sponsorship of this event is available. Please contact Dennis Reeder for more information.

Who Attends?

Average attendance of the Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park has been sixy thousand(60,000) people for the past five(5) years

The 2012 Medieval Festival will take place on Sunday, September 30th, from 11:30AM to 6 PM. There will be authentic medieval music, magic, mime, theater as well as jugglers and jesters and a spectacular joust between knights on horseback.

The Festival starts at Margaret Corbin Circle/190th Street and Fort Washington Avenue. It will extend all the way around the world famous Cloisters, a magnificent Museum of Medieval art. Visitors are encouraged to come by public transportation.

There is no admission charge but a donation of $1 per person at the Wishing Well would be appreciated.