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The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters.

Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.Since its founding in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum's galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.

Featured Collections

The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met

May 24, 2021 – May 7, 2023

Celebrating the Year of the Tiger

January 29, 2022 – January 17, 2023

Gifts from the Fire: American Ceramics from the Collection of Martin Eidelberg

October 22, 2021 – October 16, 2022

Shell and Resin: Korean Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer

December 13, 2021 – July 5, 2022

Masters and Masterpieces: Chinese Art from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection

January 30, 2021 – June 5, 2022

In the Orbit of Jacques Louis David: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints

January 20 – May 31, 2022

Crossroads

March 6, 2020 – Ongoing

A New Look at Old Masters

December 12, 2020 – Through Spring 2023

Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents

April 11 – July 31, 2022

A New Look at Old Masters

December 12, 2020 – Through Spring 2023

Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents

April 11 – July 31, 2022

The Lightning Testimonies

February 28 – September 18, 2022

The African Origin of Civilization

December 14, 2021 – Ongoing

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: New York City Regional Exhibition

March 18 – May 22, 2022

Samurai Splendor: Sword Fittings from Edo Japan

March 21, 2022 – Spring 2024

Louise Bourgeois: Paintings

April 12 – August 7, 2022

Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman

February 17 – May 15, 2022

In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met

October 16, 2018 – Ongoing

In America: An Anthology of Fashion

May 7 – September 5, 2022

In America: A Lexicon of Fashion

September 18, 2021 – September 5, 2022

Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast

March 10, 2022 – March 5, 2023

Fabergé from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection

November 22, 2011 – Ongoing

Companions in Solitude: Reclusion and Communion in Chinese Art

July 31, 2021 – August 14, 2022

Charles Ray: Figure Ground

January 31 – June 5, 2022

Bodhisattvas of Wisdom, Compassion, and Power

March 27, 2021 – October 30, 2022

Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room

November 5, 2021 – Ongoing
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