Metropolitan Museum of Art
Admission fees are suggested donations and include the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters on same day. Free for New York City public school students and children under 12 with an adult.
Fri, Sat: 9:30 am – 9 pm
Perhaps no word describes the Met as well as "encyclopedic." With nearly 3,000,000 works in its vaults that span 5,000 years, the museum can display only a fraction at a time. Several of the collections are described below.
The modern art section emphasizes mostly American paintings. The 19th-century European painting collection contains many great Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases. The European Paintings collection has Italian masterpieces as well as Dutch and Flemish works.
The American wing has the nation's finest collection of American painting, sculpture and decorative arts. Its Engelhard Court has fine examples of neoclassical and Beaux-Arts monumental sculpture and stained-glass windows by Tiffany. Nineteen period rooms date from 1680 (the Hart Room) to 1914 (the Frank Lloyd Wright Room).
The medieval art section encompasses the 4th through the 16th centuries. Strengths include early Christian and Byzantine silver and jewelry of the barbarian tribes.
The collections of the Asian Art section are from China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia. They date from the third millennium B.C. to the present. The re-creation of the Ming scholar's garden, with its rock garden and spring, is enchanting.
Works of ancient Near Eastern art range from the 6th millennium B.C. to the Arab conquest in A.D. 626 and come from Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria and Anatolia among other areas.
The Greek and Roman galleries cover several civilizations: works from the Classical period, pre-Greek artwork of the eastern Mediterranean and the pre-Roman art of Italy. The glass and silver holdings are considered among the finest in the world.
The Egyptian section includes jewelry from the Middle and New Kingdoms, sculpture depicting Queen Hatshepsut, and the Temple of Dendur, commanding a vast hangar-like space in the north wing.
Gallery talks and audio tours are offered in many languages. Subscription lectures, films, concerts and symposia are integral to the exhibitions.
Programs for Seniors
Met Escapes invites individuals living with dementia, together with their family members or care partners, to participate in discussions, handling sessions, art making and other interactive and multi-sensory activities in the galleries and in a Met classroom. This program is free, but reservations are required and places are limited. Call (212) 650–2010 or e-mail access@metmuseum.org to make a reservation or for more information.
Community Outreach programs are provided to senior centers by the museum's education department.
Foreign-language Programs
The museum's website can be viewed in many languages and different audio guide programs are available in a variety of languages. Tours are available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Guided tours and international guided tours meet in the Great Hall. Workshops for Spanish-speaking families with children between the ages of 4 and 10 take place on a regular basis.
Free for Columbia students
Senior citizens (65 and older) pay a senior price at public programs that are ticketed.
- Directions: Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 86th Street
- ADA Compliant Restrooms
- Archive
- Audio Guides
- Coat Check
- Disability Access: Fully accessible (wheelchairs, special programs and parking available); call (212) 650-2010 or e-mail access@metmuseum.org to make a reservation or for more information. Group arrangements may be made for groups of individuals with access needs.
- Disability Assistance:
Hearing: American Sign Language-interpreted programs, captioned lectures and films. Audio guides available in print for the hearing impaired. Assistive listening devices available for tours and programs. Infrared hearing devices with headsets and neckloops available in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium and the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education.
Vision: Large-print materials, verbal imaging tours, touch tours and monthly drawing classes. Audio guides and Braille materials are free for visually impaired visitors.Voice (212) 650-2010; TTY (212) 570-3828
- Gift Shops: Toys, games, art kits, cards, art and jewelry reproductions, books, sculptures and more.
- On-Site Food: Cafeteria and formal restaurant; no lunch facilities are available for school groups.
- On-Site Parking: On-site lot (entrance at East 80th Street and Fifth Avenue)
- Tours
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Listings
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Breaking the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball
Wed, Jan 18, 2012 – Sun, June 17, 2012 These baseball cards represent some of the earliest and most illustrious players who moved from the Negro Leagues into the Majors. The more than 30,000 baseball cards collected by Jefferson R. Burdick date from 1887 to 1959 and represent the most comprehensive collection outside of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Tues, Dec 6, 2011 – Mon, May 28, 2012 This exhibition features a wide range of Native American works that come from different times, different places, and numerous distinct peoples.
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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.
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