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.
Exhibitions & Dates
In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met
Oct 16 2018 -
Some 75 works, organized thematically, present key issues in 17th-century Dutch culture
Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
Oct 4 2018 -
116 masterworks from more than 40 indigenous traditions (2nd to early-20th century)
Rayyane Tabet Alien Property
Oct 30 2019 -
9th-century B.C. stone reliefs and their connection to contemporary artist Rayyane Tabet
Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance
Aug 7 2017 - Jan 23 2022
62 northern-European artworks explore questions of worth
A New Look at Old Masters - The Collection of European Paintings
Dec 12 2020 - Spring 2023
Explores themes in The Met's extensive collection of European painting
In America: A Lexicon of Fashion
Sep 18 2021 - Sep 5 2022
A two-part exploration of fashion in the United States
Surrealism Beyond Borders
Oct 11 2021 - Jan 30 2022
Almost eight decades of work produced across 45 countries
Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts
Dec 10 2021 - Mar 6 2022
40 works of 18th-century European decorative arts alongside 150 Disney production artworks
Japan: A History of Style
Aug 28 2021 - Apr 24 2022
The story of Japanese art
Louise Bourgeois: Paintings
Apr 12 2022 - Aug 7 2022
Sheds light on a little-known chapter in the artist’s practice
Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection
Jun 7 2022 - Feb 20 2023
Traces the transformation of the kimono over three centuries
In America: An Anthology of Fashion
May 7 2022 - Sep 5 2022
Sartorial narratives presented in the American Wing period rooms.
Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents
Apr 11 2022 - Jul 31 2022
90 oils and watercolors consider Homer’s work through the lens of conflict
Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman
Feb 17 2022 - May 15 2022
More than eighty drawings and oil sketches
Bodhisattvas of Wisdom, Compassion, and Power
Mar 27 2021 - Oct 30 2022
Paintings, sculptures, ritual objects, and illustrated manuscripts from the 11th to 18th centuries
Gifts from the Fire: American Ceramics - from the Collection of Martin Eidelberg
Oct 22 2021 - Oct 16 2022
More than 150 works dating from the early 1880s to the early 1950s
Companions in Solitude: Reclusion and Communion in Chinese Art
Jul 31 2021 - Aug 14 2022
More than 120 works explore the themes of solitude and togetherness
Cruel Radiance: Photography, 1940s–1960s
Nov 22 2021 - May 1 2022
Explores the flourishing of the medium between World War II and the Vietnam War
Charles Ray: Figure Ground
Jan 31 2022 - Jun 5 2022
Focused presentation features 19 objects, organized in collaboration with the artist