For a century and a half, the Metropolitan Museum has been building a world-class collection of art and artifacts from around the world, across time. Seventeen curatorial departments study, exhibit, and care for the objects in the Museum's collection.
One of the world's largest art museums, includes American art and decorative arts, European, African, Asian, Ancient Egyptian, Roman and Greek art, Byzantine and Islamic art, and modern art. The Museum's comprehensive collection of medieval and Byzantine art is displayed in both the Main Building and in the northern Manhattan satellite location, The Cloisters museum and gardens.
The Museum mounts dozens of special, temporary exhibitions. It was the Met that invented the "blockbuster" exhibition.
Please check the museum website for updated exhibition information. Scheduling has been reworked as a result of the temporary museum closure.
116 masterworks from more than 40 indigenous traditions (2nd to early-20th century)
Explores the transformative role of enamel during the Ming and Qing dynasties
100+ objects of jade and other hardstones
Twenty-four 7th-21st century works emphasize Ganesha as the bringer of new beginnings.
Specialized armor on loan from the Imperial Armoury, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Trans-historical presentation of art that reckons with death and visualizes the afterlife
Four figurative sculptures depicting ancestral spirit figures
110+/- works in a wide range of media—prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture & illustrated books
Approximately 60 rayographs and 100 paintings, objects, prints, drawings, films, and photographs
Dandyism in Black style over three hundred years
The sonic and formal potential of stringed instruments
Works by Matisse, Bourgeois, J. M.W. Turner and more
Insight into a significant pre-Stonewall cross-dressing scene of the 1960s.
25 of this Native American Abstract Expressionist's early paintings and drawings
Watercolors by Emily Sargent (1857–1936), her older brother John Singer Sargent, and their mother
Celebrates Dr. Martin Eidelberg’s collection of ceramic works from the 1880s to 1910s
Senegalese Modernist's landmark work shown in relation to his diverse source material
More than 30 works consider the entirety of her painting practice to date
Works from the Met Collection celebrate the Year of the Snake
100+/- pieces from the 5th century to today highlight dynamism in Korean art.
250 works of art and objects explore how deities were depicted
50+ works explore the visual language of desire, 13th to 15th centuries
Showcasing the camera as a tool for creativity and critique
60 works explore her shift from traditional realism to a simplified, spare style
200+ works illuminate Raphael’s extraordinary creativity