Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was established in 1870 to bring the fine arts to New York City, and it has since grown to become one of the largest and finest museums of art in the world.  The Met includes works from all around the world from every era, from Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, to Europe’s Old Masters, to Asian art, to Oceanic, to African, to Islamic, to American, to modern and contemporary art.  It displays paintings and drawings, sculpture and reliefs, glassware and metalwork, arms and armor, textiles, musical instruments, photographs, and installations, among other things.  The Met’s vast collection is proudly housed in its equally vast gallery, anchoring Fifth Avenue’s Museum Mile stretching along east Central Park.

• Stand in the ancient Temple of Dendur, transported from Egypt to the US as a goodwill gift from the Egyptian government in 1965 and reconstructed in the Sackler Wing
• See classic works of American art, such as Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware, Madame X by John Singer Sargent, and seascapes by Winslow Homer
• Discover the intricate detailing on royal suits of armor from the Renaissance and armor worn by Japanese Samurai
• View masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Dürer, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, Renoir, and many more

For more information, visit the official website at http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp.