iFounded in 1870 and housed in a vast Beaux-Arts palace along Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds roughly 1.5 million works spanning every era and culture. Its encyclopedic collection ranges from the ancient Near East and Egypt's Temple of Dendur to European Old Masters, American art, arms and armor, and modern and contemporary works. The fourth-largest art museum in the world, it draws over five million visitors a year to its galleries on the eastern edge of Central Park.
Treasured Korean objects are turned around to reveal their interiors, reverses, and hidden details, offering a fuller view of each work's form across two rotations.
Inaugurating the new Conde Nast Galleries, the Costume Institute pairs nearly 400 garments with paintings and sculpture to explore how art has depicted the dressed body.

Results from a collaborative exchange among curators, conservators, and digital specialists studying The Met's Della Robbia sculptures.
The first US exhibition on the Savonnerie centers The Met's three monumental Baroque carpets woven for Louis XIV's Grande Galerie at the Louvre, tracing their making and dispersal.

Brings together works from The Met collection to explore the horse's enduring nature and vital place in Chinese civilization.

A special installation of European paintings (c.1525-1775) by artists including Bruegel and Poussin, examining shifting depictions of humanity's relationship with nature.

Explores Japan's extensive and rich history of ceramic art.

Examines the language of portraiture from about 1900 to the 1960s through nearly 80 works from The Met collection.

The first encyclopedic exhibition of chromolithographic prints from the pioneering studio presses of Calcutta, Poona, and Bombay.

Traces how artists represented clouds and sky from early 19th-century plein-air oil sketches through 1920s photography, including Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalents cloud studies.

Explores how artists lived and worked in Nanjing in the decades before and after the fall of the Ming dynasty.

The first exhibition at The Met to explore Orientalism as its central focus.

Brings together modern-day works that reckon with death and visualize the afterlife with Byzantine Egyptian funerary art and artifacts.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Val-Kill, this exhibition celebrates the trailblazing workshop, led by women and shaped by immigrant and rural craftspeople.

Beijing-based artist Liu Wei (born 1972) inspires visitors to ponder cycles of rupture and resistance for the 2026 Genesis Facade Commission.

Multidisciplinary artist David Hartt transforms John Vanderlyn's 19th-century painting Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles into a site-specific installation exploring place and perspective.

Conceived by Si Lewen (1918–2016) in the aftermath of World War II, The Parade is informed by the artist's extraordinary life.

The first major New York presentation devoted to either artist in more than 20 years.

The dazzling stained-glass windows, lamps, mosaics, and interiors from Tiffany's studios began as drawings created by the many talented designers who worked there.

19th-century bark cloth tapa from Fiji, Samoa and Futuna, plus a Niuean hiapo on loan from Te Papa, shown as ceremonial gifts and diplomacy. Gallery 359.

Postwar Japanese photography, from Okinawa and base towns under US occupation, drawn from the Met's collection with rare photobooks and new acquisitions. Gallery 851.

Presents more than 180 exceptional works exploring art and identity beyond ancient Greece.

The Costume Institute's spring 2027 exhibition examines the career of John Galliano, one of the most inventive and influential designers of the past four decades.

First New York museum survey in 30 years: over 40 works placed across the Met in 14 departments, from a British dining room to the American Wing's Engelhard Court.
Some 14,000 objects from Europe, the Islamic world, Japan, and beyond fill the Lauder Galleries, crowned by the famous court of mounted knights in full armor.
Around 20,000 works of American painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture spread over 75-plus galleries, from the colonial era to the mid-twentieth century.

An Egyptian sandstone temple built around 15 BC and gifted by Egypt to the US, reassembled in the light-filled Sackler Wing beside a reflecting pool evoking its original Nile setting.
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