The Metropolitan
Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.

Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). With nearly 5 million visitors a year ranging from local New Yorkers to tourists around the world, the Met is the most-visited attraction in New York City.

Don't Miss The Cloisters Museum and Gardens

CityPASS admission includes same-day admission to The Cloisters.

High atop a hill in northern Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park, overlooking the Hudson River, The Cloisters museum and gardens is the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe.

Museumgoers can stroll under vaulted archways, wander through flowering courtyards, and explore meticulously re-created gardens of the Middle Ages.

Egyptian Art

The Egyptian Art Department was established in 1906 to oversee The Metropolitan Museum of Art's ancient Egyptian collection, which had been growing since 1874.

Today, after almost a century of collecting and excavating, the collection has become one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world.

Arms and Armor

The Metropolitan Museum of Art received its first examples of arms and armor in 1896.

Thanks to a substantial group of Japanese arms and armor and a major private collection of European arms and armor, both acquired by purchase in 1904, the Museum's collection quickly achieved international recognition.

Audio Guide

CityPASS admission includes $1 off an Audio Guide.

The Met Audio Guide offers approximately one hundred hours of audio commentary, developed by curators and educators, about works of art in the Museum's permanent collection and select special exhibitions.

New material — including programs in multiple languages — is added on a continual basis. Portions of the audio guide are available in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean.

The New American Wing

From monumental marble and bronze sculpture to stunning stained-glass windows by Tiffany, The Charles Engelhard Court is the grand gateway to the Met’s unparalleled collections of American art.

The newly renovated American Wing also features superb ceramics, glass, silver, pewter, jewelry, and paintings as well as three centuries of domestic architecture, furniture, and interior design, including a Frank Lloyd Wright living room.

See American art at its finest.

Roof Garden Café and Martini Bar

The Museum’s Roof Garden, open spring through late fall (weather permitting), typically features an annual sculpture installation created by a living artist. Visitors will also find spectacular views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. Sandwiches, snacks, desserts, and beverage service are available at the café daily from 10 a.m. until closing. When the Met is open late until 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings, enjoy the Martini Bar from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The Young Archer Attributed to Michelangelo

Now on view

The Young Archer, a fragmentary figure of a nude youth attributed to the teenage Michelangelo Buonarroti, is on special long-term loan to the Met from the French Republic. While strong evidence supports the theory that Michelangelo was its creator, some scholars are still in debate. Visitors are encouraged to view the sculpture, read its history, and decide for themselves.

Young Archer (detail), attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti, lent by the French Republic, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.

Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú

April 27–Oct. 31, 2010 (weather permitting) – Included with CityPASS

Created by the Starn brothers for the Met’s Roof Garden, Big Bambú is a monumental bamboo structure—continually evolving under construction by the artists and a team of rock climbers—that bridges realms of sculpture, architecture, and performance. Made possible by Bloomberg. Additional support provided by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky. Also made possible in part by the Jane and Robert Carroll Fund.

Big Bambú installation view, April 2010. Photo by Doug and Mike Starn. © 2010 Mike and Doug Starn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

VIDEO

Take a quick video tour of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters museum and gardens using New York CityPASS.