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Metropolitan Museum of Art

‘The Met,' a most cherished New York institution, is home to more than two million works of art. It opened in 1870 with a modest collection of 174 European paintings and has grown to be the largest art museum in the western hemisphere. Now its collected works span 5,000 years of culture and the museum is home to some 2,500 of the finest paintings, including Vermeers, Rembrandts, Impressionists and Post-Impressionists as well as Renaissance, African, Asian, and Islamic art. It is believed that its 36,000 pieces of Egyptian art is the greatest outside of Cairo.

Address: 
1000 Fifth Avenue,
at 82nd Street,
New York,
United States
Telephone: 
(212) 535 7710.
Website: 
www.metmuseum.org
Opening times: 

Tues-Sun 0930-1730, Fri-Sat 0930-2100.

Admission fees: 

Yes

Disabled access: 
Yes
Unesco: 
No

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