Store
November 24, 2025

Happier Holidays Sale at My Modern Met Store: Save 20% on All of Our Creative Products

Ready for the holidays? Whether you’ve been in the spirit since Halloween or are just breaking out the decorations, consider it the start of the gift-buying season. For all of your creative gifting needs, look no further than My Modern Met Store. We’ve got an extra-long start-of-the-holidays sale going on. From now until December 5 at 11:59 p.m. PST, you can enjoy 20% off your entire order when you use the code HOLIDAYSAREHERE25 at checkout.

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Museums
November 22, 2025

Elegant Design To Transform a Historic Home Into a Museum Dedicated to Jadidism

Acclaimed architect Lina Ghotmeh is transforming the home of Usmon Khodjaev, a reformer turned president, into a museum honoring the ideas, influences, and continued impact of Jadidism. Set to open in 2027, the work was commissioned by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation as a way to preserve the legacy of this late 19th and early 20th-century reformist movement.

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Nature
November 21, 2025

Biologists Overcome With Emotion After Finding Rare Flower Blooming in Indonesian Rainforest

It was a moment when a dream came true. After a long trek through a tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforest (an island in Indonesia), Dr. Chris Thorogood and his team found Rafflesia hasseltii, a plant that’s been “seen by more tigers than people.” And even luckier for them, the rare plant, nicknamed the “Tiger-faced Mushroom,” was in the midst of blooming—something that takes up to nine months to develop and is only open for a few days.

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