Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and finest museums in the world and the most comprehensive art museum under one roof. Founded in 1870, its permanent collections, housed in seventeen curatorial departments, embrace more than two million works of art from all over the globe, ranging from prehistory to the present, in all artistic media and at the highest levels of creative excellence. Five million people visit the museum each year.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and finest museums in the world and the most comprehensive art museum under one roof. Founded in 1870, its permanent collections, housed in seventeen curatorial departments, embrace more than two million works of art from all over the globe, ranging from prehistory to the present, in all artistic media and at the highest levels of creative excellence. Five million people visit the museum each year. See less