The Metropolitan Museum of Art is New York City’s encyclopedia of art. It covers 5,000 years of human history.
It’s an art museum, but more a museum of human culture. The Met is one of the places in New York City where you can see yourself, and also see how much of yourself is derived from “others.” It’s a place where you can see that we are one.
Enjoy the Met Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
[Anticipated] Mon, Nov 2, 2020 – Jan 3, 2021 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Upper East Side, Manhattan
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is Open so We Can “Dream Together”
Saturday, August 29, 2020 UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC
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The Museum Mile Festival is a Fifth Avenue Museum Open House Street Party
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 FIFTH AVENUE Upper East Side, NYC – Africa Center El Museo del Barrio Museum of the City of New York Jewish Museum Cooper Hewitt Museum Guggenheim Museum Neue Galerie Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Crown of the Andes Contains the Atahualpa Emerald
Daily METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Upper East Side, NYC The Atahualpa Emerald on this Marian crown from Popayán, Colombia belonged to the last Inca emperor
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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
Da Vinci Drawings and Prints at the Met Museum
UPPER EAST SIDE, Jan 28-Apr 28, 2019, Italian old masters art exhibition ~ The Met celebrates the Italian master’s 500th anniversary by showing drawings and prints from the permanent collection.
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Met Tickets
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is working to keep visitors safe during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
As of August 2020
Timed tickets required
$25 with discounts to $12
New Yorkers can pay what you wish, but must reserve entry day and time to purchase your ticket with state or city ID
Tickets are good for same day admission to the Met Fifth Avenue and Met Cloisters.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028
(at 82nd St)
Upper East Side, Manhattan
Subway
(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
Met 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.
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.
Past Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibitions of Latin Art
Lucio Fontana ‘On the Threshold’ Argentine-Italian art at the Met Breuer
UPPER EAST SIDE; Tue-Sun, Jan 23 to Apr 14, 2019; Argentine Italian post war art exhibition ~ The minimalist abstract artist mixed painting, sculpture and architecture in ways that foretold performance art
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Celebrating Tintoretto Italian art at the Metropolitan Museum
UPPER EAST SIDE, Daily, Oct 16, 2018 to Jan 27, 2019 ~ Italian Renaissance art exhibition. The Met celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Venetian Renaissance artist known for working rapidly in a Mannerist style.
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Delacroix
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, UPPER EAST SIDE, Daily, September 17, 2018 to January 6, 2019 ~ The rich colors and emotions of this Romantic painter inspired the Impressionists and all who followed #FRENCH #ROMANTIC #PAINTER
Heavenly Bodies Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
May 10 – October 8, 2018 Daily ~ Metropolitan Museum of Art Upper East Side, Manhattan ~ Met Cloisters Washington Heights / Inwood, Manhattan ~ The Costume Institute creates a pilgrimage that explores the influence of Roman Catholic imagery on fashion
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Painted in Mexico, 1700 – 1790: Pinxit Mexici Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the 1700s painters in New Spain created their own legacy. Metropolitan Museum of Art Upper East Side, Manhattan Daily April 24 – July 22, 2018
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Birds of a Feather Joseph Cornell’s Homage to Juan Gris at the Met
Metropolitan Museum of Art Central Park / Upper East Side January 23 – April 15, 2018
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Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer
Metropolitan Museum of Art Upper East Side, Manhattan November 13, 2017 – February 12, 2018
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Leonardo to Matisse master drawings from the Robert Lehman collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue Upper East Side, Manhattan October 4, 2017 CLOSING Sunday, January 7, 2018
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Rodin at the Met captures feelings in clay
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave, Upper East Side September 16, 2017 – January 15, 2018
Cristóbal de Villalpando Mexican Painter of the Baroque
Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue at 82nd St Upper East Side July 25 – October 15, 2017
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Theater of Disappearance connects Argentina’s Dirty War with Art History
Met Fifth Avenue 1000 Fifth Avenue Central Park / Upper East Side April 14 – October 29, 2017
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Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion
This exhibition of the Costume Institute’s best of the best collection from the early 18th century to the present is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Nov 18, 2016 – February 5, 2017
Vigée Le Brun
February 15 – May 15, 2016 MIDTOWN, NYC ~ Marie Antoinette’s favorite portraitist was one of the great 18th century French painters. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art
“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.
One of the Glories of Fifth Avenue
“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 Met will be one of the scenes that stays in your mind. It’s like a golden nugget sticking right out of Central Park.