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.
Some 75 works, organized thematically, present key issues in 17th-century Dutch culture
116 masterworks from more than 40 indigenous traditions (2nd to early-20th century)
9th-century B.C. stone reliefs and their connection to contemporary artist Rayyane Tabet
Explores the transformative role of enamel during the Ming and Qing dynasties
100+ objects of jade and other hardstones
Some fifty works highlight late nineteenth-century aesthetic innovations and trends
Twenty-four 7th-21st century works emphasize Ganesha as the bringer of new beginnings.
Chronological exploration of the twin themes of anxiety and hope
Specialized armor on loan from the Imperial Armoury, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
More than one hundred historical, modern, and contemporary clay works
Four abstract polychrome sculptures
Korean modern &contemporary art in the Met’s collection plus important international loans
160 works explore Black artists' portrayal of everyday life in the 1920s–40s
250+/- garments and accessories spanning four centuries
Works from the 1970s to today that reflect upon feelings of nostalgia and sentimentality
120+ works from the 16th-19th century Mughal, Deccani, Rajput, & Pahari courts
4+ highlights from The Met’s outstanding collection of literary posters
50+ works offer insights into the emergence of abstract imagery
explores some of the ways in which Chinese painters engaged with poetry
Photographs that transform everyday objects into covetable commodities
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
60 double-sided and covered portraits in which the sitter’s likeness was concealed
Sprawling site-specific sculptural installation
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