The Place
The Met is a universal museum: every
category of art in every known medium from every part of the
world during every epoch of recorded time is represented here
and thus available for contemplation or study -- not in isolation
but in comparison with other times, other cultures, and other
media. From the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue, the Met, with its tall columns
and windows, immense stairways and water fountains, looks like
it could be an emperor s palace. The size and diversity of the
artwork on display is even more impressive; the museum s collection
contains works from every part of the world, spanning the Stone
Age to the twentieth century. The Egyptian Art gallery includes
a whole temple that was shipped to America as a gift.
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First Floor Collections
» Modern
Art
Paintings, works on paper, sculptures, designs, architecture.
Works by Matisse, Picasso and others.
» The
Robert Lehman Collection
Italian paintings 1300-1500 by Goya, El Greco Rembrandt and
others.
Second Floor Collections
» Drawings
and Paintings
European drawings from the 15th
throught the 19th cantury, and prints by Goya, Durer, and Rembrandt.
» Photographs
Chanching exhibitions, including photographs by American French
and British photographs.
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