Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Avenue | between 80th & 84th Streets
Upper East Side | Manhattan
to 86th Street
General Information
Contact 212-879-5500 | Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Hours
Tuesday thru
Thursday 9:30A to 5:30P
Friday & Saturday 9:30A to 9:00P
Sunday 9:30A to 5:30P
Closed New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day,
Christmas Day
Met Holiday Mondays The Museum is
open on Mondays during selected three day holiday weekends with
hours from 9:30A to 5:30P. Coming dates are: Jan 18th, Feb
15th, May 31st
Extras
Restaurant | Cafe |
Cafeteria | Gift Shop | Book Store | Coat Check | Child Back
Carriers | Parking | Walking Tours | Gallery Talks
Admission
Adults $20 |
Seniors $15 | Students $15 | Children under 12 Free
Highlights
A collection of more than 2 million
objects make this repository of the art and culture of the world
unsurpassed. The range spans time and place: the arts of Africa,
Oceana and the Americas; Greek and Roman art, including treasury
pieces and decorative arts; Egyptian art; ancient Near-Eastern art;
Islamic art; Medieval art; arms and armor; European grand masters;
painting and sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries; illustrated
arts; musical instruments; fashion arts; American art, architecture
and design. Our favorites, especially if you're pressed for time
include the Masters on the 2nd floor and Frank Lloyd Wright's
Francis Little House in the American Wing. Kids can always get
interested in Ancient Egypt and especially the collection of
European armor on the 1st floor
Highlights are impossible to list,
however . . .
First Floor | 20th Century
Art Calder Red Gongs; Chagall The Market
Place, Vitebsk; Dali Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus);
de Kooning Two Men Standing; Hockney Mount Fuji and the
Flowers; Hopper From Williamsburg Bridge; Lichtenstein
Stepping Out; O'Keefe Black Iris, Picasso Gertrude
Stein; Pollack Autumn Rythm | The Equestrian
Court in the Arms and Armor galleries is a hit with
families, adults can appreciate the beauty, intricacy and
craftsmanship; young folk (as well as older) can use their
imaginations | The Egyptian Galleries A walk
through of the most extensive collection in the US is a must | American
Wing The Frank Lloyd Wright designed living room from the Francis
W Little House employs the most comfortable proportions
Second Floor | 19th Century
European Painting & Sculpture Ingres Joseph-Antoine
Moltedo; Turner The Whale Ship; Delacroix Basket
of Flowers; Corot The Destruction of Sodom; Rousseau The
Forest in Winter at Sunset; Courbet Woman with a Parrot;
Manet The Spanish Singer; Degas Little
Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, The Dancing Class; Monet The
Green Wave, La Grenouillere; Bridge Over a Pool of Water Lillies;
plus Pissaro, Cezanne, Seurat, Gaugin, van Gogh, Rodin, et al | European
Painting Botticelli The Last Communion of St Jerome;
Giotto The Epiphany; Raphael Madonna and Child
Enthroned with Saints; Titian Venus and the Lute Player;
Vermeer Young Woman with a Water Jug; Rembrandt Aristotle
with a Bust of Homer, Self-Portrait; Gainsborough Mrs Grace
Dalrymle Elliott; Goya Majas on a Balcony; Durer Virgin
and Child with St Anne; Bruegel The Harvesters; Rubens
Venus and Adonis; El Greco Portrait of a Cardinal;
Caravaggio The Musicians.
Many more artists and many more
works. Also see The Cloisters
Major Exhibitions listed by
order of closing date
July 2 2010 thru February 13
2011
Between Here and There: Dislocation and
Displacement in Contemporary Photography
February 27 thru November 28
2010
Celebration: The Birthday in Chinese Art
April 13 thru November 7
2010
Vienna Circle 1780: An Imperial Silver Service
Rediscovered
April 27 thru October 31
2010
Doug + Mike Starn On the Roof Big Bambu
June 8 thru October 17
2010
Hipsters, Hustlers and Handball Players
Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs 1950-1980
March 31 thru September 26
2010
Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana
March 16 thru September 6
2010
Tutankhamun's Funeral
November 17 2009 thru September 6
2010
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of
Oceana
March 16 thru August 29
2010
Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks at the Met
May 12 thru August 15
2010
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey
Collection Corregio to Tiepolo
May 5 thru August 15
2010
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
April 27 thru August 1
2010
Picasso in the Met
February 6 thru August 1
2010
Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting: Xie
Zhiliu 1910 - 1997
March 2 thru June 13
2010
The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers
and the Belles Heures of Jean de France
December 15 2009 thru June 13
2010
Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
September 15 2009 thru June 13
2010
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from
the Collection
December 17 2009 thru June 6
2010
5,000 Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the
Packard Collection
March 2 thru May 23
2010
The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the
Court of Burgundy
Things change quickly in NYC. Be sure to contact the museum or society for changes to schedules, admission fees, restrictions on children, strollers, backpacks, etc.
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