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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Met Museum, Met Fifth Avenue or The Met is New York City’s encyclopedia of art. It covers 5,000 years of human history.

Fashionistas love the Costume Institute.

The Met Cloisters houses some of the Met’s medieval collection at a reconstructed cloisters in Upper Manhattan.

Max Hollein is Director.

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Met Museum Features

Metropolitan Museum of Art Archive

Met Museum News

February 2023

Pedro Giraudo plays a Valentines Day Argentine tango concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art After Hours, in Central Park; on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 from 6-9pm. $210. 🇦🇷

November 2023

The Met Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche is at the Met Museum in Central Park through Jan 9, 2022. metmuseum.org 🇮🇹

About the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 and moved to its main location in Central Park in 1880. The Met Fifth Avenue has a Beaux-Arts facade in front of over two million square feet of museum.

The Met is an art museum, but it’s really a museum of human culture that tells the story of all of us. Since George Floyd, the Met is showing more African art and changing its narrative. Thank you!

There are great exhibitions and views on the Met Rooftop. You can have a drink or snack up there.

The Met Museum puts many images and a lot of art history online. You can easily spend days visiting the museum, or the website. Either is time well spent.

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The museum is in Central Park. The entrance opens to the Upper East Side.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Tickets

Tickets are good for same day admission to the Met Fifth Avenue and Met Cloisters. New Yorkers can pay what you wish.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
(at 82nd St)
Central Park, NYC

Subways
(4) (5) (6) to 86th St.
(M)(N)(Q)(R) to 86th St

From the West Side
(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

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Galleries with Latin 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.

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

The African Origin of Civilization compares West African, Central African and Egyptian art to show how human civilization began in Africa, from Dec 14, 2021 ongoing. metmuseum.org 🇧🇯🇨🇩🇪🇬🇨🇮🇬🇭🇲🇱🇬🇳🇳🇬🇸🇸

Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room is ongoing. 🇺🇸

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

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

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

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

The Arms and Armor gallery displays European armor.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a Place to “Dream Together”

Met Museum Reopens so we can "Dream Together" Yoko Ono 2020 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Met Museum Reopens so we can “Dream Together” Yoko Ono 2020 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

August 2020 is the first time The Met has commissioned its entrance banners.

Yoko Ono has always been a minimalist poet. Ono offers “Pu,” the taoist uncarved block that represents both infinite possibility and the containment of infinity. That’s a clever description of The Met Museum.

The artist gives us two words to express her dream. Of course, it is “Dream Together.”

There is no better place in the world than New York City to dream together.

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