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Every Day at the Met

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
(at 82nd Street)
New York, NY  10028
Tel: (212) 535-7710
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Free for children, members, $10.00 students, $15.00 seniors, $20.00 adults.
The above are suggested prices. New York City public school students, along with students from Bard Graduate Center, Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University receive free admission.

Dates

Ongoing

Hours

Tues – Thurs, Sun: 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Fri, Sat: 9:30 am – 9 pm

Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.
The Met has 19 curatorial collections on view every day. Choose a part of the globe, medium or time period in the past five millenia and you're likely to find representative art works from it on the museum's two floors that span four city blocks. Outdoor sculptures, installations and the cityscape can be seen on the roof garden (weather permitting). Gallery tours take place daily and special exhibitions are always on view.
  • Directions: Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 86th Street

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was incorporated in 1870 and moved to its present location in Central Park in 1880. It houses an encyclopedic collection of art objects from virtually all periods and continents.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Listings

  • Storytelling in Japanese Art

    Sat, Nov 19, 2011 – Sun, May 6, 2012 Featuring more than 60 works of art in a range of mediums and formats, this exhibition invites you to explore Japan's long and rich history of pairing narrative texts with elaborate illustrations.

  • Plant Drawings by Ellsworth Kelly

    Tues, June 5, 2012 – Mon, Sept 3, 2012 The first major museum exhibition dedicated exclusively to the plant drawings of Ellsworth Kelly. Approximately 80 drawings begin in 1948, during Kelly's early sojourn in Paris, and continue throughout his travels to his most recent work made in upstate New York.

  • The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde

    Tues, Feb 28, 2012 – Sun, June 3, 2012 This exhibition unites some 200 works of art to demonstrate the significant impact the Steins' patronage had on the artists of their day and the way in which the family disseminated a new standard of taste for modern art-from Matisse to Picasso.

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