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All NYCVP Vacations include FREE admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art! See what other free bonuses you get with your package.
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s finest museums and a must-see on your visit to New York City. The Museum's comprehensive collection contains more than two million works of art from ancient through modern times. With Egyptian mummies, Islamic carvings, Renaissance paintings, historic and modern costumes, Native American masks and 20th century decorative arts, there’s something for everyone. Enjoy the Met on 2-night and longer New York City vacation packages arriving any day.
Metropolitan Musem of Art Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibitions
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Your Metropolitan Museum of Art Vacation Includes:
- Accommodations for 2-nights or longer in a midtown Manhattan hotel of your choice, in the heart of Times Square, the Theater District, Rockefeller Center
- Admission to the Metropolitan Musem of Art
- And much more
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The Met Collection
In formation since 1870, the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. |
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American Decorative Arts
Furniture, silver, pewter, glass, ceramics, and textiles from the late 17th to early 20th century, as well as domestic architecture in furnished period rooms. |
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American Paintings and Sculpture
Portraits, landscapes, history paintings, still lifes, folk art, and sculpture from colonial times through the early 20th century. |
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Ancient Near Eastern Art
Stone reliefs and sculpture, ivory, and objects of precious metal from a vast area and time span: Anatolia to the Indus Valley, Neolithic period (ca. 8000 B.C.E.) to the Arab conquest (7th century C.E.). |
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Arms and Armor
Armor for men, horses, and children, weapons, and martial accoutrements of sculptural and ornamental beauty from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and America.
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Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Ritual objects and monuments, articles of personal adornment, and utensils for daily life from three continents and dozens of Pacific islands, 2000 B.C.E. to the present. |
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Asian Art
Paintings, calligraphy, prints, sculpture, ceramics, bronzes, jades, lacquer, textiles, and screens from ancient to modern China, Japan, Korea, and South and Southeast Asia. |
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The Cloisters
Art and architecture of medieval Europe, including sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, metalwork, enamels, ivories, paintings, and tapestries (see also "Medieval Art"). |
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The Costume Institute
Seven centuries and five continents of fashionable dress, regional costumes, and accessories for men, women, and children, up to the present.
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Drawings and Prints
Graphic art of the Renaissance and after, encompassing prints in all techniques, sketches to highly finished drawings, illustrated books, and other works on paper. |
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Egyptian Art
Statuary, reliefs, stelae, funerary objects, jewelry, daily implements, and architecture from prehistoric Egypt through the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms to the Roman period (4th century C.E.). |
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European Paintings
Major canvases, panels, triptychs, and frescoes by Italian, Flemish, Dutch, French, Spanish, and British masters, from the 12th through the 19th century. |
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Greek and Roman Art
Arts of Greece, Rome, Etruria, Cyprus, and Greek and Roman settlements until the 4th century C.E., including marble, bronze, and terracotta sculpture, vases, wall paintings, jewelry, gems, glass, and utilitarian objects. |
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Islamic Art
Manuscripts and miniatures, carpets, intricately decorated objects in many media, and architectural elements from the founding of Islam in the 7th century C.E. onward, from Morocco to India.
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The Robert Lehman Collection
A private collection of paintings, drawings, and decorative arts given to the Museum, rich in works from the Italian and Northern Renaissance through the 20th century. |
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The Libraries
Rare first editions, artists' treatises and manuals, illustrated atlases, scrapbooks, fine bindings, and seminal works of art history from the Museum's research libraries.
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Medieval Art
Early European, Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque, and Gothic works from the 4th to 16th century, including sculpture, tapestries, reliquaries, liturgical vessels, and more (see also "The Cloisters"). |
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Modern Art
American and European paintings, works on paper, sculpture, design, and architecture representing the major artistic movements since 1900. |
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Musical Instruments
An international array of instruments of historical, technical, and social importance, as well as tonal and visual beauty, from accordions to koras to zithers. |
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Photographs
Prints and daguerreotypes from the early history of the medium, European and American avant-garde works, and contemporary contributions from around the world. |
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Antonio Ratti Textile Center
Tapestries, velvets, carpets, embroideries, laces, samplers, quilts, and woven and printed fabrics from all periods and civilizations, dating back to 3000 B.C.E.. |
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Provenance Research Project
Read about ongoing research into the ownership history, or provenance, of paintings and other works of art in the Metropolitan Museum. |
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Special Exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Current Exhibitions
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Picasso in The
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Through August 1, 2010
This landmark exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) in the Museum's collection. It features three hundred works, including the Museum's complete holdings of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics by Picasso—never before seen in their entirety—as well as a selection of the artist's prints. The Museum's collection reflects the full breadth of the artist's multi-sided genius as it asserted itself over the course of his long and influential career.
Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting: Xie
Zhiliu (1910–1997)
Through August 1, 2010
This exhibition includes a selection of around one hundred and fifty
works by Xie Zhiliu (pronounced "shay jer-leo"), one of modern China's
leading traditional artists and a preeminent connoisseur of painting and
calligraphy. The rare trove of material on view demonstrates how
studying and copying earlier models were as much a part of Chinese
artistic tradition as learning from nature. Drawn from a recent gift of
sketches, calligraphic works, manuscripts, and seals presented to the
Museum by the artist’s daughter, Sarah Shay, the installation
commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of Xie Zhiliu’s birth.
American Woman:
Fashioning a National Identity
Through August 15, 2010
American Woman: Fashioning a
National Identity is the first Costume Institute exhibition drawn
from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the
Met. It explores developing perceptions of the modern American woman
from 1890 to 1940 and how they have affected the way American women are
seen today.
Celebration:
The Birthday in Chinese Art
Through August 15, 2010
In Chinese art, the birthday is a celebration of a long and
rewarding life. This exhibition—focusing on scenes of splendid
celebrations and works incorporating the theme of longevity—draws
together examples in many media from the Museum’s collection as well as
some exceptional promised gifts.
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection,
Correggio to Tiepolo
Through August 15, 2010
Over the past twenty years, Julie and David Tobey have assembled one of
the preeminent collections of Italian Old Master drawings in private
hands. Ranging across the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth
centuries, this exhibition, consisting of approximately seventy
drawings, covers all the principal centers of Italian art—Florence,
Rome, Naples, Bologna, Parma, Venice, Genoa, Milan—and features
masterpieces by a distinguished roster of great draftsmen, among them
Correggio, Bernini, Guercino, Guido Reni, Canaletto, and Tiepolo.
Side by Side: Oberlin’s Masterworks at the Met
Through August 29, 2010
Founded in 1917, the
Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is one of the finest
college or university collections in the United States, serving as an
invaluable educational resource for aspiring art scholars and artists.
While the museum is closed in 2010 for renovations, twenty of their
masterpieces—nineteen paintings and one sculpture—are on view at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art for five months. These include the great Ter
Brugghen painting Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene (one of the most
important Northern Baroque paintings in the United States), Cézanne's
Viaduct at L'Estaque, Kirchner's Self-Portrait as a Soldier, and a
striking Kirchner sculpture. Each of these works is integrated into the
Metropolitan Museum's great collection, creating new, provocative
juxtapositions.
Tutankhamun’s Funeral
Through September 6, 2010
The exhibition features jars, lids, bowls, floral collars, linen sheets,
and bandages that were used at the pharaoh's mummification and the
rites associated with his burial, as well as related objects such as a
sculpted head of the youthful Tutankhamun and several facsimile
paintings depicting funerary rituals. Archival photographs from the
early twentieth century by Harry Burton, the Museum's expedition
photographer, provide an evocative background.
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Through September 6, 2010
Music
is a universal human phenomenon. Musical instruments and musical
expression, however, take an almost infinite variety of forms
throughout the world. This is especially true in Oceania (the Pacific
Islands) whose more than 1,800 different peoples create an astonishing
diversity of musical instruments, from familiar types such as drums,
flutes, and the Hawaiian 'ukulele, to unusual forms such as slit gongs
carved in the form of ancestral catfish, bullroarers whose eerie
whirring sounds are said to be the voices of supernatural beings, and
delicate stringed instruments with sounding chambers fashioned from
palm leaves.
Epic India: Scenes from
the Ramayana
Through September 19, 2010
The story of Rama—the Ramayana—one of the great epics of South Asia literature, has captured the imagination of Indian artists for centuries. Scenes from the Ramayana first appear at Deogarh, in north India, in the mid-fifth century. These temple sculptures are the earliest depictions of the avatars, or divine appearances, of Vishnu, among whom the most popular proved to be Rama.
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
Through October 17, 2010
Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988), an unheralded master of street photography, is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from Times Square and the Lower East Side to Coney Island. This exhibition, drawn exclusively from the Metropolitan's collection, will feature some forty photographs that reflect the artist's fearless approach to the medium. Levinstein's graphic virtuosity—seen in raw, expressive gestures and seemingly monumental bodies—is balanced by his unusual compassion for his offbeat subjects from the demimonde.
Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú
Through October 31, 2010 (weather permitting)
The monumental bamboo structure, ultimately measuring 100 feet long, 50
feet wide, and 50 feet high, takes the form of a cresting wave that
bridges realms of sculpture, architecture, and performance. Visitors
witness the continuing creation and evolving incarnations of Big Bambú
as it is constructed throughout the spring, summer, and fall by the
artists and a team of rock climbers. Set against Central Park and its
urban backdrop, Big Bambú suggests the complexity and energy of an
ever-changing living organism. It is the thirteenth-consecutive
single-artist installation on the Roof Garden.
Between Here and There: Passages in
Contemporary Photography
Through February 13, 2011
Themes of dislocation and
displacement in contemporary photography are explored in this exhibition
of works from the collection. Perambulations and digressions in
photographic works from the 1960s and 1970s by Vito Acconci, Ed Ruscha,
Richard Long, and On Kawara, and a 1968 video by Bruce Nauman, show how a
work of art—cut loose from any specific medium or physical
requirements—could take the form of a walk, a 20–foot–long book, or a
rigorously nonsensical pattern of movements.
Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection
Through Fall 2010
This installation presents approximately forty highlights from the Museum's extensive permanent collection of rare and exquisitely decorated armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from Tibet and related areas of Mongolia and China, dating from the eighth to the twentieth century. Included are several recent acquisitions that have never before been exhibited or published.
Vienna Circa 1780: An
Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered
Through November 7, 2010
This superb ensemble was last displayed at the beginning of the twentieth century. Wine coolers, tureens, cloches, candelabra, candlesticks, dozens of plates, porcelain-mounted cutlery, and other kinds of tableware, totaling more than three hundred items, represent the splendor of royal dining during the ancien régime.
Masterpieces of French Art Deco
Opened August 4, 2009
French Art Deco is one of the great strengths of the Metropolitan’s modern design collection. The Museum has been actively collecting in this area since the 1920s, when pieces were acquired directly from their designers in Paris. This presentation in The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery features many of the collection’s most important works, some of which have not been shown for generations.
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Upcoming Exhibitions
The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
September 28, 2010–January 2, 2011
The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel
September 28, 2010–April 3, 2011
Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance
October 6, 2010–January 17, 2011
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
October 19, 2010–January 23, 2011
Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met
October 19, 2010–March 6, 2011
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty
October 20, 2010–January 9, 2011
Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand
November 10, 2010–April 10, 2011
Haremhab, The General Who Became King
Opens November 10, 2010
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Museum Hours
 Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: 9:30am-5:30pm
Friday and Saturday: 9:30am-9pm
Closed Mondays (except as listed below), Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.
*Galleries are cleared at 5:15pm, Sunday–Thursday, and 8:45pm, Friday and Saturday
**The Main Building of the Metropolitan Museum—its galleries, restaurants, and shops—will be open from 9:30am to 5:30pm on the following Met Holiday Mondays:
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: January 21, 2008
Presidents' Day: February 18, 2008
Memorial Day: May 26, 2008
Labor Day: September 1, 2008
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