A ninja turtle roams the halls of the Metropolitan Museum

The Metropolitan Museum in New York, to celebrate the extraordinary achievement of the Michelangelo exhibition that will close next Feb. 12 (more than 500,000 visitors have come to the Met’s halls to see it since Nov. 13), has called in a special guest (or a special guest, as they use to say in these cases): it’s Michelangelo, the friendly ninja turtle with the orange blindfold, a lover of pizza and, apparently, of Renaissance art as well.

“This morning,” the Met tweeted last Jan. 25, “we welcomed Michelangelo, one of the ninja turtles, to the Met. Our celebrity guest came to us to see the works of an artist with the same name as him.” The ninja turtle visit was conceived by the Met together with NYC & Company, New York’s tourism promotion company: the four comic and cartoon reptiles are the organization’s “Family Ambassadors.” In fact, the comic book story created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in the 1980s tells that the four ninja turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo) live in the sewers of New York City: they were originally four baby turtles, genetically modified after an accident, and raised as ninjas by the rat Splinter, who gave each of them a name inspired by the four great Renaissance artists themselves. The turtles fight crime, and each has characteristics of its own, with Michelangelo in particular being the most sympathetic and playful of the group.

Pictured is the Michelangelo turtle with a bust of the artist Michelangelo made by Daniele da Volterra.

A ninja turtle roams the halls of the Metropolitan Museum

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