A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met

A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met

Perry Margouleff and Dirk Ziff have donated musical instruments played by Keith Richards, Neil Young, Les Paul, and Chet Atkins to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nick Paumgarten reports.

“It was so secretive that I, as a curator of the Met, had no idea what was actually there”: One of the world’s finest guitar collections has been kept under wraps for decades – now it’s been donated in full to the Met

The collection has been in the works since 1987 and is now set to be displayed in a permanent gallery that charts the instrument’s influence on American culture