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The Metropolitan Museum of Art (colloquially The Met) is an art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. There is also a much smaller second location at "The Cloisters" in Upper Manhattan that features medieva... More

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Area:

0.17402 km² (0.067189 mi² )

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Opened:

1874

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Metropolitan Museum Art,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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Artworks owned:

Artwork	Date acquired	Method of acquisition
The Death of Socrates
Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
Chant d'Amour	1947	Purchase
Salomé	1916	Gift
Lilacs in a Window	1997	Gift
Lady at the Tea Table	1923	Gift
Madame Henri François Riesener	1994	Gift
The Heart of the Andes		bequest
Self-portrait
The Cup of Tea

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Architect

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Address

1000 Fifth Avenue

New York City New York 10028

United States of America

Address

Metropolitan Museum of Art Address

Fifth Ave. at Eighty-second St.

New York

United States of America

Metropolitan Museum of Art Address

1000 5th Avenue

New York City New York 10028

United States of America

Metropolitan Museum of Art Address

5th Avenue and 82nd Street

Manhattan New York

United States of America

Type of museum:

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Established:

1870

Director:

Thomas P. Campbell

Buildings occupied:

The Cloisters

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Date founded:

1870

Board members:

Person	Title	From	To
Helen Rogers Reid	Trustee	1952
Mary Alexander Whitehouse	Trustee	1952	1976
James P. Gorman
James R. Houghton
John F. Akers
Orit Gadiesh

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The Cloisters

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Exhibitions

Exhibitions at this venue:

Exhibition	Opened on	Closed on
Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection	Dec 21, 2007	Apr 5, 2009
blog.mode: addressing fashion	Dec 18, 2007	Apr 13, 2008
The Art of Time: European Clocks and Watches from the Collection	Dec 18, 2007	Apr 27, 2008
Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808-1842	Nov 20, 2007	May 4, 2008
Tara Donovan at the Met	Nov 20, 2007	Sep 21, 2008
Asian Lacquer: Masterpieces from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection	Nov 3, 2007	May 11, 2008
Abstract Expressionist Drawings	Nov 1, 2007	Feb 24, 2008
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece	Oct 30, 2007	Jan 13, 2008
Rumi and the Sufi Tradition	Oct 23, 2007	Feb 3, 2008
Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor	Oct 17, 2007	Jan 6, 2008

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Designation as Natural or Cultural Site:

Designation	Date Listed	Category or Criteria
National Register of Historic Places	Jun 24, 1986	National Historic Landmark

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Operates institutions:

The Cloisters

From the ELTE MTI - Digitális képtár base

Intézménynév:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Location:

New York City

Műtárgy:

Műtárgy	Leltári szám	Aktuális őrzési hely	Kommentár
D. Mauch: Mater dolorosa (New York)	09.141.4	Yes	1909-től
Michelangelo: Young Archer		Yes	tartós letét a francia külügyminisztériumtól

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National

Significant Year:

1902
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