NYAB Venue - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum in The Upper East Side area

The Metropolitan is a collection of museums, each deserving of many repeated visits. It is a vast storehouse of knowledge, where works of art are held for reference as well as for display; its collections are meant to be consulted as one chooses from a long menu. Indeed, the strength of the Met is that all under one roof it provides an almost infinite number of options for many rich and rewarding visits. These can take an infinite number of forms, from random wanderings to planned itineraries, from an in-depth study of a single gallery or exhibition to the exploration of several different cultures or periods. Every conceivable peregrination is possible because the Met is a universal museum: every category of art in every known medium from every part of the world is represented here and thus available for contemplation or study – and not in isolation but in comparison with other times, other cultures, and other media. Understood in this way, of course, the Met can never be too big, for once we acknowledge that it can be visited best only in sections, in small tastings, then, as with a long menu or a box of assorted chocolates, the more we have to choose from, the better.

Current or Upcoming Events

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  "The Making of a Collection Islamic Art at the Metropolitan" Exhibition
  Closes tomorrow

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  Perino del Vaga Exhibition
  Closes tomorrow

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  "Photographic Treasures from the Collection of Alfred Stieglitz" Exhibition
  Closes in 22 days

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  "Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine" Exhibition
  Closes in 29 days

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  "Red and Black Chinese Lacquer, 13th–16th Century" Exhibition
  Closes in 71 days

Permanent events

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  "The South Asia Galleries Gandhara, Mathura, Andhra and Gupta Sculpture" Exhibtion

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  The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts

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  Gallery for the Art of Native North America

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  Galleries for Oceanic Art

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  Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, including the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries

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  Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection

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  Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art and the Medieval Europe Gallery

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  American Landscapes in the Robert Lehman Wing

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  The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms

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  The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments

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  "Highlights from the Modern Design Collection, 1900 to the Present, Part II" Exhibition

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  New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

» Browse the past events for this venue