Metropolitan Museum of Arts

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Established	April 13, 1870; 147 years ago (April 13, 1870)
Location	1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028
Coordinates	40°46′46″N 73°57′47″W / 40.779447°N 73.96311°W / 40.779447; -73.96311
Visitors	5.2 million (2008) 4.9 million (2009) 5.24 million (2010) 7 million (2016)* Ranked 1st nationally* Ranked 4th globally
Director	Thomas P. Campbell
President	Daniel Weiss
Public transit access	Subway:   to 86th Street Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M79, M86 SBS
Website	www.metmuseum.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Elevation by Simon Fieldhouse
Built	1874; 143 years ago (1874)
Architect	Richard Morris Hunt; also Calvert Vaux; Jacob Wrey Mould
Architectural style	Beaux-Arts
NRHP Reference #	86003556
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	January 29, 1972
Designated NHL	June 24, 1986

www.metmuseum.org

June 24, 1986

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met," is located in New York City and is the largest art museum in the United States, and is among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, 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 at Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program.

The permanent collection consists of 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, Indian, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from first-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.