Arms and armor, Middle Ages main hallThe Met’s Department of Arms and Armor is among the museum’s hottest collections. The 1904 buy of the collection of Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, duc de Dino, served because the foundational assortment. It turned speaking of an excellent assortment with the reward and bequest of the Henry Riggs assortment of two,000 items, which was one of many most interesting assembled by a single particular person.