An Overview

 The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City is the largest art museum in the United States. With 6,953,927 visitors to its three locations in 2018, it was the third most visited art museum in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe. 

       

On March 18, 2016, the museum opened the Met Breuer museum along Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program.

 

Collections

 The permanent collection includes works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, and antique weapons and armor from around the world. A great number of period rooms, ranging from first-century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed in the Met's galleries. In addition to its permanent exhibitions, the Met organizes and hosts large traveling shows throughout the year.

                                                                         Benin ivory mask, Iyoba, 16th-century Nigeria

                                                                 Bronze Chola Statue of Nataraja

                                                   Tirthankara lord Neminatha from Akota Bronzes, 7th century

                                                                       William the Hippopotamus is a mascot of the Met

                                                                            

                                                                                  Mummy, Metropolitan Museum of Art

                                                                                             European paintings at the museum

                       The Amathus sarcophagus, from Amathus, Cyprus, arguably the single most                                                        important object in the Cesnola Collection 

                                                                      

                                                              Leaf from the Blue Qur'an showing Chapter 30: 28–32

                                                                                     Grand piano by Sébastien Érard, c. 1840

                                                            Memantra by Frank Stella on exhibit in the roof garden.

                                                         Standing male worshiper, Mesopotamian, 2750-2600 BC

                                                                                         Tabernacle of Cherves, c. 1220–1230

    Attributed to Jean de Touyl (French, died 1349), Reliquary Shrine from the convent of the

                                                                    Poor Clares at Buda         

                                                     Andrea da Giona, Altarpiece with Christ in Majesty, c. 1434 

            Jan van Eyck, Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych, c. 1430–40

                                                   Pablo Picasso, Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, 1911     

                                                                     Paul Cézanne, The Card Players, 1890–1892   

                                                                   Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream, 1899