The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met Fifth Avenue) covers 5,000 years of human history. Fashionistas love the Costume Institute. The Met Gala is one of America’s most important fashion moments. Met Rooftop installations offer great views and a snack bar. The Met Cloisters houses a collection of medieval European art, architecture, and gardens in Upper Manhattan. Met Expert Talks and Met Expert Talks en Español enhance your visit.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibitions
SEPTEMBER
Fashion Exhibition
“Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” is an immersive exhibition that connects four centuries of fashion with the natural cycles of death and rebirth; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park; from May 10 – September 2, 2024. $30 (NY state residents pay-what-you-wish). metmuseum.org 🇺🇸
Met Expert Talks en Español
Maria G. Mieites Alonso, Responsable de Laboratorio, The Met, habla sobre “La magia de colorantes naturales en la Edad Media.” En esta charla, descubra las diferentes plantas (¡e insectos!) utilizados como colorantes naturales en tiempos medievales para crear algunos de los tapices más emblemáticos de la Colección de The Met, como el tapiz del Rey Arturo (metmuseum.org). En el Met Cloisters en Fort Tryon Park en el Alto Manhattan; en el Domingo, 1 de septiembre de 2024, desde 2-3pm. Incluido con la entrada. Consigue tus entradas en metmuseum.org 🇪🇸
Mexican Printmaking
Mexican Prints at the Vanguard examines Mexico’s printmaking traditions from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, including Posada who printed “La Calavera Catrina” that inspired the renewal of Mexico’s Day of the Dead traditions,” at the Met Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, from September 12, 2024 – January 5, 2025. metmuseum.org 🇲🇽
African American Art
Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson (1922-2015) is a retrospective of the artist’s practice of creating positive representations of the Black American experience when they weren’t many in popular culture or museums; at the Met Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, from September 20, 2025 to February 8, 2026. metmuseum.org 🇺🇸
French Drawings
Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) examines the draftsman’s unconventional drawings of everyday life in 1700s Paris; at the Met Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, from September 26, 2024 to February 4, 2025. metmuseum.org 🇫🇷
OCTOBER
Italian Painting
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 examines the influence of Sienese artists (a town outside of Florence) on Italian Renaissance painting; at the Met Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, from October 13, 2024 to January 26, 2025. metmuseum.org 🇮🇹
NOVEMBER
Black Artists and Ancient Egypt
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1875-Now examines how Black cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt, from the 1800s, to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-1970s, to now; at the Met Fifth Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; from November 17, 2024 to February 17, 2025. metmuseum.org 🇪🇬
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ONGOING
“The African Origin of Civilization compares West African, Central African and Egyptian art to show how human civilization began in Africa, from Dec 14, 2021 through January 19, 2025. metmuseum.org 🇧🇯 🇨🇩 🇪🇬 🇨🇮 🇬🇭 🇲🇱 🇬🇳 🇳🇬 🇸🇸
“Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection” shows the diversity, complexity, and influence of Native American art from over fifty Indigenous groups is ongoing. metmuseum.org 🇺🇸
“Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room” builds an African Diaspora past-present-future narrative around a reimagined room in Seneca Village, the African American neighborhood displaced to build Central Park. The exhibition is ongoing. metmuseum.org 🇺🇸
Metropolitan Museum of Art Tickets
Tickets are good for same day admission to the Met Fifth Avenue and Met Cloisters. New Yorkers can pay what you wish.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
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Upper East Side, Manhattan
About the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 and moved to its main location in Central Park on the Upper East Side in 1880. The Met Fifth Avenue has a Beaux-Arts facade in front of over two million square feet of museum.
The Met is an art museum, but it’s really a museum of human culture that tells the story of all of us. It is doing great work showing how African Diaspora and Indigenous culture are vital parts of our American culture and also influence the world. Thank you!
Latin Collections Online
The Met Museum puts many images and a lot of art history online, including works that are iconic in their categories. You can easily spend days visiting the museum, or the website. Either is time well spent.
- African Art in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing contains many African masks and ceremonial objects.
- Ancient American Art in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing contains Indigenous art of the Americas.
- Arms and Armor displays European armor.
- The Costume Institute turns fashion into art.
- Egyptian Art displays ancient art from Egypt.
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts displays large-scale European sculptures and some decorative arts from Latin America.
- Greek and Roman Art contains art from Italy and from the height of the Roman expansion around the Mediterranean.
- Medieval Art surveys European art from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. There is more medieval art at the Met Cloisters in Upper Manhattan.
- Modern and Contemporary Art displays masterworks from when Paris was the global center of art.
- Oceanic Art in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing contains Indigenous art of the Pacific.
- Robert Lehman Collection contains European art and decorative objects including Italian Maiolica glass.
View online collections at metmuseum.org
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Recent Latin Programming
SEPTEMBER
Fashion Art
“Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” is an immersive exhibition that connects four centuries of fashion with the natural cycles of death and rebirth; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park; from May 10 – September 2, 2024. $30 (NY state residents pay-what-you-wish). metmuseum.org 🇺🇸
JULY
African American Art
“The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” shows how after the Great Migration from the South, led to the Harlem Renaissance in Black Arts which influenced the international modern art movement; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park; from February 25 – July 28, 2024. $30 (NY state residents pay-what-you-wish). metmuseum.org 🇺🇸
JUNE
Native American Art
“Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” is an exhibition curated by Native American communities that shows how Pueblo and Hopi pottery was itself an expression of community; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park: from July 13, 2023 – June 4, 2024; $30 (NY state residents pay-what-you-wish). metmuseum.org 🇺🇸
MARCH
African Art
“Africa & Byzantium” shows the cultural connections between medieval Africa and Byzantium, the eastern Rome in what is now Türkiye, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park; from November 19, 2023 – March 3, 2024. $30 (NY state residents pay-what-you-wish). metmuseum.org 🇪🇬 🇪🇹
FEBRUARY
Puerto Rican Art
“Victorian Masterpieces from the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico” is a special installation of five European masterpieces from the Ponce collection, including Frederic Leighton’s “Flaming June;” while the museum in Ponce is repaired after the 2020 earthquakes that shook southwestern Puerto Rico. Through February 2024. metmuseum.org 🇵🇷