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A Google Doodle celebrating the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 151st anniversary (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Tomorrow, April 13, marks the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 151st anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, Google created a special “Doodle” for its US homepage, highlighting artworks from the New York institution’s vast collection.

The doodle was originally planned for the Met’s 150th-anniversary celebrations last year, which were hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The animated digital artwork was created by artist Erich Nagler, lead art director of Google Doodles. 

The GIF features rotating samples from the Met’s permanent collection, including a sculpture from 2nd-century BCE China; a 13th-century terracotta sculpture from the Inland Niger Delta region of present-day Mali; “The Unicorn Rests in a Garden” (1495–1505) from the Unicorn Tapestries; an ornate Italian guitar from around 1800; and Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr.’s “Self-Portrait” (ca. 1941). A rendering of the Met’s Fifth Avenue building is shown underneath the works of art, with lines indicating where each object is located within its galleries.