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
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
Arte del mar: Artistic Exchange in the Caribbean
Dec 16 2019 - Jun 27 2021
Artistic exchange around the Caribbean before the 16th century
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Up Close
Jan 25 2020 - Jun 27 2021
Close looking at the heart of Chinese painting and calligraphy
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
The New Woman Behind the Camera
Jul 12 2021 - Nov 7 2021
Images by 120+ women photographers from 20+ countries, from the 1920s to 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
Celebrating the Year of the Ox
Jan 30 2021 - Jan 17 2022
Depictions of oxen and water buffalo created by artists in the last 3,000 years
Alice Neel: People Come First
Mar 22 2021 - Aug 1 2021
100 paintings, drawings, and watercolors position Neel as one of the 20th century’s radical painters
The Roof Garden Commission: - Alex Da Corte, As Long as the Sun Lasts
Apr 16 2021 - Oct 31 2021
The ninth in a series of site-specific commissions for the roof garden
The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570
Jun 26 2021 - Oct 11 2021
90 portraits in a wide range of mediums, including many by the period's most celebrated artists
Karl Bodmer: North American Portraits
Apr 5 2021 - Jul 25 2021
35 portraits, notable for precise observation and sensitivity of depiction of the sitters
The Facade Commission: - Carol Bove, The séances aren’t helping
Mar 1 2021 - Nov 2021
The second commission to be featured on the facade of The Met Fifth Avenue
Georg Baselitz: Pivotal Turn
Jan 28 2021 - Jul 18 2021
Six portraits provide a rare view of a pivotal moment of artistic innovation
Shapes from Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection - Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection
Feb 22 2021 - Aug 29 2021
75 works chart the evolution of abstraction in clay
Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo
Aug 16 2021 - Nov 28 2021
50 works tell the story of the artist Jules Tavernier’s extraordinary career