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)
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast
Mar 10 2022 - Mar 5 2023
More than thirty-five works reveal artistic legacies of slavery in the Western world
Rayyane Tabet Alien Property
Oct 30 2019 -
9th-century B.C. stone reliefs and their connection to contemporary artist Rayyane Tabet
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
Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection
Jun 7 2022 - Feb 20 2023
Traces the transformation of the kimono over three centuries
The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met
May 24 2021 - May 7 2023
3rd- to 8th-century art from Egypt explores social status, wealth, and living well in Late Antiquity
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
Jul 5 2022 - Mar 26 2023
Explores the practices and materials used in ancient polychromy
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Sep 9 2022 - Feb 5 2023
50 ceramic objects from the decades before the Civil War
The Facade Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt
Sep 15 2022 - May 2023
New sculptures for the facade niches that reference works in the collection
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
Oct 10 2022 - Jan 8 2023
More than 100 objects trace the transformation of the arts in Tudor England
Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition
Oct 20 2022 - Jan 22 2023
A radically new view juxtaposes Cubist works with 17th-19th century trompe l’oeil paintings
Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art
Nov 21 2022 - Apr 2 2023
120 works, from monumental to miniature, connect the divine, human, and natural realms
The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey
Spring 2023 - Fall 2023
Full-scale architectural site-specific installation
Embracing Color: Enamel in Chinese Decorative Arts, 1300–1900
Jul 2 2022 - Feb 17 2025
Explores the transformative role of enamel during the Ming and Qing dynasties
A Passion for Jade: - The Bishop Collection
Jul 2 2022 - Feb 16 2025
100+ objects of jade and other hardstones