Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan’s Upper East Side is New York City’s encyclopedia of art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the United States. It covers over 5,000 years of art from around the world. You can spend weeks in the Museum and not see it all.

“The Met” was founded in 1870 and moved to its main location in Central Park in 1880. It covers over two million square feet.

Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art has three branches:

• Met Fifth Avenue (Upper East Side, Manhattan)
• Met Breuer (Upper East Side, Manhattan)
• Met Cloisters (Fort George, Manhattan)

The Met Fifth Avenue has a Beaux-Arts facade.

Greek and Roman Art

The Greek and Roman Art gallery contains art from Italy and from the height of the Roman expansion around the Mediterranean. I always thought the Romans copied Greek culture. Actually, they absorbed the culture  of Greek settlers in the shoe of Italy and Sicily. Migration can be a very good thing.

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

The Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas gallery displays art by Native Americans.

Modern And Contemporary Art

The Modern and Contemporary Art gallery displays masterworks from when Paris was the global center of art.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The European Sculpture and Decorative Arts gallery displays large-scale European sculptures and some decorative arts from Latin America.

Robert Lehman Collection

The Robert Lehman Collection contains European art and decorative objects including Italian Maiolica glass.

Medieval Art

The Medieval Art gallery surveys European art from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance.

Arms and Armor

The Arms and Armor gallery displays European armor.

Regular admission (including tickets purchased online) is $25 for adults, $17 for Seniors (65 and over), $12 for students, and free for children under 12 with an adult.

If you are a New Yorker and these prices are too much for you, don’t be dismayed. The Met has a policy of allowing New Yorkers (the entire state) to pay what you choose when you buy tickets at the ticket counter. You must show some kind of New York address identification.

Tickets include same day admission to The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters.

Get tickets at metmuseum.org

Met Fifth Avenue

1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10028
(at 82nd Street)
Upper East Side, Manhattan

(212) 535-7710

Hours

• Sunday – Thursday: 10 am – 5:30 pm
• Fridays & Saturdays: 10 am – 9 pm

Subway

• (4) (5) (6) to 86th St. Walk three blocks west to Fifth Avenue. It takes about 10 minutes.
• (1) to 86th St. Take the M86 bus across town to Fifth Avenue
• (C) to 81st St. Take the M79 bus across town to Fifth Avenue

Bus

• From Uptown: M1, M2, M3, M4 along Fifth Avenue
• From Downtown: M1, M2, M3, M4 along Madison Avenue
• Crosstown: M79 bus to Fifth Avenue

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