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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Audio Guide

One of the finest art museums in the world, containing over 2 million works of spanning 500 years. Includes VIP admission, same day admission to the Cloisters, and all exhibition and audio guide, 'Narrated by Museum Director Philippe de Montebello'

Opening hours:

Monday: Closed (Except Holiday Mondays)

Tuesday toThursday: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Sunday: 9:30 a.m.to 5:30 p.m.

(Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day)

The Main Building of the Metropolitan Museum including its galleries and shops will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the following Met Holiday Mondays:

Labor Day, Columbus Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day,  Memorial Day

Child policy:

Child Policy: Children less than 12 years Free of Charge
Departure points:

You present your Capital Breaks voucher at the Metropolitan Museum and exchange this voucher for admission at the Group Registration Desk

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Audio Guide Information

Description

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (founded 1870) is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. In 1880, the Metropolitan Museum moved to its current site in Central Park. The original Gothic-Revival-style building has been greatly expanded in size since then, and the various additions (built as early as 1888) now completely surround the original structure.

The Museum's two-million-square-foot building has vast holdings that represent a series of collections, each of which ranks in its category among the finest in the world. The American Wing, for example, houses the world's most comprehensive collection of American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts, presently including 24 period rooms that offer an unparalleled view of American history and domestic life. The Museum's approximately 2,500 European paintings form one of the greatest such collections in the world - Rembrandts and Vermeers alone are among the choicest, not to mention the collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases. Virtually all of the 36,000 objects constituting the greatest collection of Egyptian art outside Cairo are on display, while the Islamic art collection is one of the world's finest. Other major collections belonging to the Museum include arms and armor, Asian art, costumes, European sculpture and decorative arts, medieval and Renaissance art, musical instruments, drawings, prints, antiquities from around the ancient world, photography, and modern art.

The Met Audio Guide offers approximately one hundred hours of audio commentary, developed by curators and educators, about works of art in the Museum's permanent collection and select special exhibitions. New material - including programs in multiple languages - is added on a continual basis. All Audio Guide commentaries, as well as Met Podcast episodes, are available in one player for a single, daily rental fee.

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Address:
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York
10028
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