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
20+ works from the Museum’s collection that depict this imaginary animal in various media
Four sculptures combine figurative and abstract elements fill the facade niches
Two monumental works of Chinese calligraphy
75+/- works by this German Romantic movement artist
Four figurative sculptures depicting ancestral spirit figures
110+/- works in a wide range of media—prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture & illustrated books
21 pairings of works from different African cultures and eras
A rich selection of works arranged chronologically
25 rarely seen Sully compositions from the 1920s through 1940s
A selection of superlative drawings from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century
160+ rare works created in Japan over the course of nearly a millennium
Additions to the Met's works-on-paper holdings over the past decade
Explores the luxurious aspects of Edo-period sword fashion
Sixteen 1920s dress silks designed by leading commercial artists of that era
130+ prints by some of Mexico’s best-known artists
100+ paintings, sculptures, textiles, instruments, and ritual objects, most from the 12th-15th centuries
80 artifacts in a variety of scales showcase the full breadth of Rudolph’s work
100+ works lenders by a remarkable group of 14-th century Sienese artists
Nearly 200 works of art in a wide range of media
A thematic arrangement of his drawings and prints of daily life in 18th-century Paris
Photographs and paintings of Florida by two artists of different generations
Contemporary installations alongside nineteenth-century criminology photographs