Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, New York

About

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870, is the largest art museum in the Americas and one of the greatest in the world. Its permanent collection of over two million works spans 5,000 years of art from across the globe, encompassing paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and artifacts from ancient civilizations to the present day.

Highlights & Things Not to Miss

Egyptian Art

Temple of Dendur, circa 15 BC

European Paintings

Vermeer, Rembrandt, and the Old Masters

Arms and Armor

Medieval and Renaissance collection