Pierre Terjanian (born in

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) is the upcoming director of the

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after having served as its chief of curatorial affairs and conservation since 2024. He is also a Curator Emeritus at the

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, having previously been appointed

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Curator in Charge of The Met's Department of Arms and Armor. Terjanian has a graduate degree in history from the Université de Metz. Prior to his tenure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (which he joined in 2012), he held the dual role of J. J. Medveckis Associate Curator of Arms and Armor and acting head of the Department of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture before 1700 at the

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. Terjanian is the author of ''The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I'' which accompanied and augmented the exhibition he curated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and ''Princely Armor in the Age of Dürer: A Renaissance Masterpiece'' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art". In 2018 and 2019 Terjanian arranged a series of live events where

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from New York City dance collective It's Showtime NYC—founded and sponsored by the

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"Dancing in the Streets"—performed in replica armor in the Emma and

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Arms and Armor Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Terjanian succeeds Matthew Teitelbaum as director of the Boston museum, and will assume the new position in July 2025.

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