The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met Museum) is New York City’s encyclopedia of art. It covers 5,000 years of human history. The Costume Institute is popular with fashionistas. There are great exhibitions and views on the Met Rooftop. You can have a drink or snack up there.
The Met Cloisters in Upper Manhattan houses some of the Met’s medieval collection.
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 own narrative. Thank you!
The Met Museum puts many images and a lot of art history online. You can easily spend days visiting the museum, or the Met Museum website. Either is time well spent.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Tickets
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
(at 82nd St)
Central Park, Manhattan
Tickets are good for same day admission to the Met Fifth Avenue and Met Cloisters. New Yorkers can pay what you wish.
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art News
Twitter @metmuseum
Instagram @metmuseum
Latin Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche are a New York Holiday Tradition
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 – Jan 8, 2023
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NYC’s Museum Mile Festival is a Fifth Avenue Open House Street Party
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
UPPER EAST SIDE
Africa Center
El Museo del Barrio
Museum of the City of New York
Jewish Museum
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Guggenheim Museum
Neue Museum
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Crown of the Andes and the Atahualpa Emerald are at the Met Museum
Ongoing
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New York Portraitist Alice Neel Captured the Spirit of El Barrio
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March 22 – August 1, 2021
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is Open so We Can “Dream Together”
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC | Saturday, August 29, 2020
The Met Sees the Caribbean for the First Time in Arte del Mar
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December 16, 2019 – June 27, 2021
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Camp: Notes on Fashion
Daily, May 9 – September 8, 2019
French, French-Canadian, Italian, Spanish fashion art exhibition
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ The Costume Institute’s 2019 exhibition explores how camp fashion goes mainstream
September 2022
In America: A Lexicon of Fashion Part 1 is at the Met Museum Costume Institute through Sep 5. metmuseum.org 🇨🇺🇩🇴🇭🇹🇵🇷|🇨🇱🇻🇪|🇪🇸
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, September 9, 2022 – February 5, 2023. metmuseum.org 🌍🇺🇸
March 2022
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, exposes the duplicity of colonial representations of the Black figure, in contrast to the ways important contemporary artists such as Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley represent themselves, at the Met Museum in Central Park, Thu, Mar 10, 2022 – Mar 5, 2023. metmuseum.org 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts is at the Met Museum in Central Park from Fri, Dec 10, 2021 – March 6, 2022. metmuseum.org 🇫🇷
February 2022
Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman, about the leading Neoclassicist working during and after the French Revolution, is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, Thu, Feb 17 – May 15. metmuseum.org 🇫🇷
January 2022
The Met Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche is at the Met Museum in Central Park through Jan 9, 2022. metmuseum.org 🇮🇹
Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism is at the Met Museum in Central Park through Jan 17, 2022. metmuseum.org 🇫🇷🇭🇹🇮🇳🇲🇽🇪🇸
Spain, 1000-1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith is at the Met Cloisters through January 30, 2022. metmuseum.org 🇪🇸
October 2021
Surrealism Beyond Borders is at the Met Museum Oct 11, 2021 – Jan 30, 2022. metmuseum.org 🇲🇽|🇨🇺🇭🇹🇵🇷🇲🇶|🇦🇷🇨🇴🇵🇪|🇪🇬🇪🇹🇲🇿|🇻🇺|🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇷🇴🇪🇸
Metropolitan Museum of Art Galleries with Latin Art
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.
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. 🇺🇸
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.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a Place to “Dream Together”
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.
Take a Ride Down Museum Mile
“The Met” 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.
If you ride down Fifth Avenue on a summer night, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be one of the scenes that stays in your mind. The Museum is like a golden nugget sticking right out of Central Park.