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The hand-held fan was an unexpected muse for some of the most innovative artists in 19th-century Europe.

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, recto TRC: "83"; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BL: Nubie."; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BC:...

Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship reveals how master masons and other artists began to visualize and communicate their complex ideas...

An illuminating profile of one of today’s most innovative architects whose materials-based practice explores how space can provoke emotional response.

Inscription: (central medallion (A), front, on scroll of Moses, center): SIC . ERIT . VITA . TVA . PENDENS / . ANE . N . CREDES . VITE . TVE (Thus your life...

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Benozzo Gozzoli was a principal assistant of Fra Angelico, contributing to the frescoes in San Marco, Florence, the Chapel of Nicholas V in Rome, and the vault...

Nov 14, 2023 - In 2020, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is celebrating its 150th birthday. Let's look back at some milestones in 150 years of the Met.

This catalogue, published annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announces the Museum's publications for that year. It also features notable backlist...

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Oct 15, 2025 - Resources for exploring Black style and Dandyism in The Costume Institute Library.

Presenting 100 works from the 5th century to today, highlighting Korean art’s auspicious symbols in paintings, ceramics, textiles, and ritual objects.

Signature: Burnt into wood of base: DegasMarking: Within bronze rectangle let into base: CIRE / PERDUE / AA HEBRARD / A ; within bronze seal on left thigh:...

The Artist: Simon Vouet (see fig. 1 above) is one of a number of major artists, among whom are Jusepe de Ribera, Valentin de Boulogne, Gerrit van Honthorst,...

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Divine Egypt showcases 250 works revealing how ancient Egyptians used images to connect with their gods, blending art, ritual, and daily life across millennia.

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

The Met's collection of Islamic art ranges in date from the seventh to the twenty-first century.

How did John Wilson’s depiction of violence towards Black families embody systemic problems facing Black mothers in the United States?

The Met’s collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance.

Musical Bodies is the first exhibition to explore the relationship between musical instruments and the body.

The panel represents the Annunciation to the Virgin with the angel Gabriel and the Virgin each standing under an arch. The winged Gabriel appears on the left...

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Over 100 jade and hardstone carvings from the Heber Bishop collection showcase Qing and Mughal artistry, tools, and jade-carving techniques in this exhibit.

We know remarkably little about the circumstances around the creation of this masterpiece, El Greco's greatest surviving landscape. There is a possibility...

Aug 1, 2022 - Objects conservator Deborah Schorsch recounts the long history of conservation at The Met

The Museum’s collection of Greek and Roman art.

The Met is committed to welcoming audiences that reflect the diversity of New York City. Volunteers are a key partner in this mission, helping The Met create...

Photographs and publications from a 1960s cross-dressing community that met in NYC and the Catskills, created by and for its members.

The exhibition Costume Art pairs garments from The Met's collection with artworks to reveal the inherent relationship between clothing and the body.

View telephone numbers, email addresses, and mailing addresses for teams at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Explore the legacy of Manet and Degas's complicated relationship.

Celebrate the cultural achievements of African artists and innovators.

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Following renovation, 500 sub-Saharan African works highlight major movements—one-fourth on view for the first time—spanning the Middle Ages to today.

Visit New York's art museums to see everything from Egyptian relics to French Impressionists, great American painters and contemporary art.

Seneca Village, a 19th-century Black community in today’s Central Park, was displaced in 1857. The exhibit imagines its thriving future through Afrofuturism,...

Jun 18, 2025 - In 1975, Charles and Ray Eames produced a short film exploring how The Met might “host” guests and foster connections between the public and its collection.

HistoryAfter the conquest of Egypt in 31 B.C., Augustus confiscated the property of Egyptian temples and centralized their administration. As a kind of...

Explore more than 1,000 essays on a wide range of topics, including artists, materials, movements, and themes.

Cuisine inspired by art, communities and culture located inside The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of businessmen, financiers, and leading artists and thinkers of the day who wanted to create a...

Featuring beautiful color reproductions and enlightening descriptions, this is the definitive guide to one of the largest, and most beloved, collections of art...

Jan 9, 2026 - The author of After Sappho offers a queer feminist reading of Eve and the serpent, reimagining sin as likeness, desire, and bodies transcending gender and...

This history of The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates its evolution into one of the world’s greatest museums and its vision for the future

This special installation showcases a jousting armor of Philip I of Castile (1478–1506), on loan from the Imperial Armoury, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.

Uncover the details behind 10 successful and attempted art heists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC!

This exhibition celebrates Dr. Martin Eidelberg’s gift to The Met of approximately 80 ceramic works dating from the 1880s to 1910s.

Corporate support helps The Met fulfill its mission by funding its operating budget, education programs, and a variety of Museum-wide programs.

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Hear an insider’s perspective from Angela Lansbury and others who made the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast.

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Explores the meaning of portraiture across time and cultures—from funerary masks to realism to abstraction.

Oct 8, 2025 - Frida Escobedo has forged an unusual path in architecture, founding her own studio at a young age. Now, she’s bringing two of New York’s storied cultural...

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Hear about the provocative history of porcelain with Michelle Zauner, frontwoman of Japanese Breakfast, as your guide.

The Brooklyn Bridge Up Close gives the opportunity to see seven of them for the first time in forty years, including John Roebling’s monumental presentation...

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Over 5,000 years of art from around the world.

The Met's world-famed collection of European paintings encompasses works of art from the 13th through the 19th centuries—from Giotto to Gauguin.

Beijing-based artist Liu Wei (born 1972) will inspire visitors to ponder cycles of rupture and resistance for The Genesis Facade Commission in 2026

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism 2026 Day-to-Day Calendar. Booktopia discounts Calendars, Diaries, Journals, Stationery Items at our online stationery...

The Met’s Modern and Contemporary Art department studies, collects, and exhibits art from 1890 to the present. The collection encompasses modernist movements...

Jul 26, 2023 - How has art history overlooked the crucial role disability played in Pippin's painting?

Explore the enduring legacies of the arts of the ancient Americas.

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

The American Wing comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women.

This exhibit explores shields as defense and visual display, examining their style, construction, and how shape reflects regional and cultural origins.

Jul 14, 2022

The collection of Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum is one of the largest and is the most comprehensive in the West.

A look at John Singer Sargent’s formative years in Paris, a city that helped spark his rise to the nineteenth-century art world.

Rediscovered watercolors reveal Emily Sargent’s unique style, shown with works by brother John Singer Sargent and mother Mary, highlighting their creative bond.

Listen as archaeologists discuss the objects on display in their cultural context, including fertility rites, the practice of oracles, and navigating at sea...

The Department of Objects Conservation is responsible for the physical care and technical study of three-dimensional works of art.

Dec 17, 2025 - Simple solutions for fitting nontraditional book formats upright on library shelves.

The presentation offers an extraordinary opportunity to closely examine a large body of little known Cycladic works that have been repatriated to Greece.

This arresting portrait of an unidentified young Florentine is dated by most scholars to the 1530s. During that decade Bronzino was often engaged in painting...

Discover how Wilson’s illustrations for children’s literature emphasized the importance of representation.

The Arms and Armor department collects, preserves, researches, publishes, and exhibits the art of the armorer, swordsmith, and gunmaker.

Reserve group admission in advance to receive special group rates and bypass the admission lines.

Hear curators, conservators, and contemporary artists uncover the surprising stories and politics behind British art, craftsmanship, and consumerism.

The Museum is committed to making its collection, buildings, programs, and services accessible to all audiences.

High school students, undergraduate and graduate students, and recent graduates are eligible for internships at The Met.

Dec 20, 2025 - The repatriations are linked to long-running investigations into looting at Bubon and other archaeological sites, as prosecutors in New York step up pressure...

This audio guide highlights works by the American artist Winslow Homer.

Oct 20, 2023 - What does a cake have in common with an Italian Renaissance painting? The answer may surprise you! Watch to learn about the special properties of egg yolk that...

Fellowship opportunities for junior and senior academics, postdocs, and museum professionals to conduct research at The Met.

Learn more about the many departments at The Met that hose interns. Placement options vary each semester depending on current staff availabilty and projects.

Unpack the symbolism and stories of early Buddhist art

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Dec 11, 2025 - Watch as a three-part Tiffany window that was conceived, commissioned, and crafted by women arrives at The Met.

Comissioned by Count Jan and Countess Valeria Tarnowski (1804/6–49) ; by descent, the heirs of Count Jan and Countess Valeria Tarnowski (1849–before 1871; sold...

Wheat Field with Cypresses is Van Gogh’s initial study from nature of a composition that he repeated in three other versions: a large reed-pen drawing (Van...

Explore the Museum as a family with special guides, events, and a dedicated play space for kids at our 81st Street Studio.

Explores how many ancient and early modern works help shape ideas of skin color, race, and gender, and examines polychromy's modern reception.

The exhibition features over 100 artworks made over the course of Wilson’s career, many of which have not been shown before.