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Metropolitan Museum of Art


5th Avenue | between 80th & 84th Streets

Upper East Side | Manhattan

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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. In 2006 these dates are: Jan 16th, Feb 20th, May 29th, Jul 3rd, Sep 4th, and Oct 9th

Extras

Restaurant | Cafe | Cafeteria | Gift Shop | Book Store | Coat Check | Child Back Carriers | Parking | Walking Tours | Gallery Talks

Admission

Adults $15 | Seniors $10 | Students $10 | 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

Exhibitions listed by order of closing date

 

April 25 2006 thru July 30 2006

The Art of Betty Woodman

The first full retrospective of this contemporary ceramic artist's career includes works from her early years in the 50s and 60s, through her mixed media works of the early 21st century

March 21 2006 thru August 6 2006

Kara Walker at the Met After the Deluge

The artist contrast works from the Museum's American art collection with her own works of cut-paper silhouettes to explore issues raised in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Works by Turner, Homer and Shaw are presented

January 28 2006 thru August 13 2006

The Four Seasons

A survey of of Chinese landscapes includes narrative paintings and flower paintings

May 24 2006 thru August 27 2006

Girodet Romantic Rebel

A 110-work exposition highlights the originality and diversity of Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, whose career spanned late 18th- and early 19-century movements in French art

June 20 2006 thru September 4 2006

Raphael at the Metropolitan The Colonna Altarpiece

The Raphael masterpiece painted for a Perugian convent acquired by J P Morgan exhibited along with other paintings and drawings by the master

May 3 2006 thru September 4 2006

On Photography A Tribute to Susan Sontag

A survey of the critic's writings on photography includes works by major 20th-century photographers

June 6 2006 thru September 4 2006

Anglomania Tradition & Transgression in British Fashion

British fashion over the past thirty years set in the Museum's of English Period Rooms

June 13 2006 thru September 10 2006

Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings

150 objects in different media highlight the transformation of Mayan rulers from the temporal to the godly in the period from 900 BC to 550 AD

February 28 2006 thru September 24 2006

The Fabric of Life Ikat Textiles of Indonesia

Textile works from across Indonesia, including Sumatra, Borneo and Sulawesi

July 11 2006 thru October 15 2006

Rembrandt and His Circle Drawings and Prints

A collection of 44 works by Rembrandt and a handful of works by his contemporaries acknowledge his 400th birthday

April 25 2006 thru October 29 2006

Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof Transparent Monument

Four site-specific works: Clear Sky Black Cloud, Transparent Monument, Nontransparent Monument & Move Along, Nothing to See Here

June 22 2006 thru December 3 2006

A Sensitivity to the Seasons Autumn and Winter

A collection of works from the late first millennium illustrates how the art of the time reflected the intricate interweaving of the seasons with Japanese life

September 19 2006 thru December 10 2006

New Orleans after the Flood Photographs by Robert Polidori

Twenty works by the photographer marks the anniversary

September 14 2005 thru January 7 2007

Ambroise Vollard Patron of the Avant-Garde from Cezanne to Picasso

This can only be described as an extensive survey of late 19th- and early 20th-century European art. It includes pieces by artists either bought, sold or both by a seminal dealer. Represented are Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Renoir, others

February 15 2005 thru January 14 2007

The Armored Horse in Europe 1480 to 1620

This exhibit brings items out of storage to show how mounted warriors spared no expense in protecting their steeds

September 26 2005 thru January 14 2007

Sean Scully Wall of Light

Recent works by the Irish-born abstract artist include his Wall of Light series that includes pieces in various media inspired by light playing peek-a-boo amidst the surface of Mexican stone walls

September 2 2006 thru January 21 2007

Brush and Ink The Chinese Art of Writing

Chinese calligraphy over the past 1,600 years

September 26 2006 thru February 18 2007

Set in Stone The Face in Medieval Sculpture

Yep, just what is says, Medieval stone heads, some of whom have been "reconnected" from the sculpture from which they had been detached

February 21 2006 thru February 25 2007

A Taste for Opulence Sevres Porcelain from the Collection

Works from the more than 350-year-old producer include decorative objects and 18th-century French porcelain-decorated furniture

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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