NEW YORK, NY.- In June 2008 the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art accepted the Association of Art Museum Directors's June 4, 2008 Guidelines on the Acquisition of Archaeological Materials and Ancient Art, and on November 12, 2008, the Board of Trustees adopted a revised Collections Management Policy incorporating those guidelines.

The full text of the Metropolitan Museum's Collections Management Policy is now posted online at www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/collections_mgmt_policy.pdf