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
Sita and Rama: The Ramayana in Indian Painting
Aug 10 2019 -
17th-19th century paintings capture a 5th-century B.C epic narrative
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)
Kyoto: Capital of Artistic Imagination
Jul 24 2019 - Jan 31 2021
50+ paintings and 80+ masterworks of decorative arts, from ancient to modern times
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 - Feb 28 2021
62 northern-European artworks explore questions of worth
Arte del mar: Artistic Exchange in the Caribbean
Dec 16 2019 - Jun 27 2021
Artistic exchange around the Caribbean before the 16th century
The Great Hall Commission: Kent Monkman, mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)
Dec 19 2019 -
Two monumental paintings commissioned for The Met's Great Hall
The Gosford Wellhead: An Ancient Roman Masterpiece
Jun 1 2020 - Feb 14 2021
Exploring a wide range of topics related to Rome and its antiquities
Aesthetic Splendors: Highlights from the Gift of Barrie and Deedee Wigmore
Dec 2 2019 -
Some fifty examples of paintings and decorative arts from the American Aesthetic movement and the Gilded Age.
About Time: Fashion and Duration
Oct 29 2020 - Feb 7 2021
More than a century and a half of fashion explores how clothes generate temporal associations
Fabergé - from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection
Nov 22 2011 - Nov 30 2021
Selection of works from the collection on a rotating schedule for five years
Pictures, Revisited
Oct 19 2020 - May 9 2021
Selections from the Met's rich collection of contemporary photography
Goya's Graphic Imagination
Feb 8 2021 - May 2 2021
100+ works follow his evolution as a graphic artist
The New Woman Behind the Camera
Jul 12 2021 - Nov 7 2021
The work of 120+ women who embraced photography from the 1920s through the 1950s.
A New Look at Old Masters - The Collection of European Paintings
Dec 12 2020 - Spring 2022
Explores themes in The Met's extensive collection of European painting