| Metropolitan Museum Of Art |
Address :
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York , NY , 10028 [Map] [Website]
Phone : (212) 570-3828
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Borough :
Manhattan - |
Description :
Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum Of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.
The museum's two-million-square-foot building has vast holdings that represent a series of collections, each of which ranks in its category among the finest in the world. The American Wing, for example, houses the world's most comprehensive collection of American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts, presently including 24 period rooms that offer an unparalleled view of American history and domestic life. The museum's approximately 2,500 European paintings form one of the greatest such collections in the world – Rembrandts and Vermeers alone are among the choicest, not to mention the collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases. Virtually all of the 36,000 objects constituting the greatest collection of Egyptian art outside Cairo are on display, while the Islamic art collection is one of the world's finest. Other major collections belonging to the museum include arms and armor, Asian art, costumes, European sculpture and decorative arts, medieval and Renaissance art, musical instruments, drawings, prints, antiquities from around the ancient world, photography, and modern art.
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Hours :
Tuesday through Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
Parking :
The Museum parking garage, located at Fifth Avenue and 80th Street, is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. For more information, please call 212-879-5500. |
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