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  • The collection dates back almost to the founding of the museum: many of the philanthropists who made the earliest gifts to the museum included Asian art in their collections.

  • [67] Housed in the “Robert Lehman Wing,” the museum refers to the collection as “one of the most extraordinary private art collections ever assembled in the United States”.

  • [80] Due to the Met’s long history, “contemporary” paintings acquired in years past have often migrated to other collections at the museum, particularly to the American and
    European Paintings departments.

  • [8] A great number of period rooms, ranging from first-century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed in the Met’s galleries.

  • Mummy, Metropolitan Museum of Art Though the majority of the Met’s initial holdings of Egyptian art came from private collections, items uncovered during the museum’s own
    archeological excavations, carried out between 1906 and 1941, constitute almost half of the current collection.

  • [29] European sculpture and decorative arts[edit] European sculpture court The European Sculpture and Decorative Arts collection is one of the largest departments at the Met,
    holding in excess of 50,000 separate pieces from the 15th through the early 20th centuries.

  • [15] The Wing exhibits Non-Western works of art created from 3,000 BCE – present, while at the same time displays a wide range of cultural histories.

  • Today, an entire wing of the museum is dedicated to the Asian collection, and spans 4,000 years of Asian art.

  • Before Rockefeller’s collection existed at the Met, Rockefeller founded The Museum of Primitive Art in New York City with the intentions of displaying these works, after the
    Met had previously shown disinterest in his art collection.

  • Islamic art[edit] Leaf from the Blue Qur’an showing Chapter 30: 28–32 The Metropolitan Museum owns one of the world’s largest collection of works of art of the Islamic world.

  • [6] The permanent collection includes works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive
    collection of American and modern art.

  • [13] This is considered to be the first time arts outside of the West were placed alongside Western art in a Western museum.

  • Certain artists are represented in remarkable depth, for a museum whose focus is not exclusively on modern art: for example, ninety works constitute the museum’s Paul Klee
    collection, donated by Heinz Berggruen, spanning the entirety of the artist’s life.

  • The museum’s permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and
    an extensive collection of American and modern art.

  • The museum also acquired Walker Evans’s personal collection of photographs, a particular coup considering the high demand for his works.

  • However, the museum has confirmed to the New York Post that it has withdrawn from public display all paintings depicting Muhammad and may not rehang those that were displayed
    in the Islamic gallery before the renovation.

  • The collection also includes artifacts and works of art of cultural and secular origin from the time period indicated by the rise of Islam predominantly from the Near East
    and in contrast to the Ancient Near Eastern collections.

  • The collection also contains many pieces from far earlier than the Greek or Roman empires—among the most remarkable are a collection of early Cycladic sculptures from the
    mid-third millennium BCE, many so abstract as to seem almost modern.

  • [78] Modern and contemporary art[edit] With some 13,000 artworks, primarily by European and American artists, the modern art collection occupies 60,000 square feet (6,000
    m2), of gallery space[79] and contains many iconic modern works.

  • However, this allows the main galleries to display much of the Met’s Byzantine art side by side with European pieces.

  • Like the Islamic collection, the Medieval collection contains a broad range of two- and three-dimensional art, with religious objects heavily represented.

  • In total, the Medieval Art department’s permanent collection numbers over 10,000 separate objects, divided between the main museum building on Fifth Avenue and The Cloisters.

  • This intentional separation of the Collection as a “museum within the museum” met with mixed criticism and approval at the time, though the acquisition of the collection was
    seen as a coup for the Met.

  • [35] The Greek and Roman collection dates back to the founding of the museum—in fact, the museum’s first accessioned object was a Roman sarcophagus, still currently on display.

  • • Established: April 13, 1870; 152 years ago; Location: 1000 Fifth Avenue and 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, New York, NY 10028, U.S.; Coordinates: 40.7794°N 73.9631°W; Collection
    size: 2 million; Visitors: 1,958,000 (2021); Chairs: Candace Beinecke, Hamilton E. James; Director: Max Hollein Collections The Met’s permanent collection is curated by seventeen separate departments, each with a specialized staff of curators
    and scholars, as well as six dedicated conservation departments and a Department of Scientific Research.

  • Every known Asian civilization is represented in the Met’s Asian department, and the pieces on display include every type of decorative art, from painting and printmaking
    to sculpture and metalworking.

  • The collection ranges from 40,000-year-old indigenous Australian rock paintings, to a group of 15-foot-tall (4.6 m) memorial poles carved by the Asmat people of New Guinea,
    to a priceless collection of ceremonial and personal objects from the Nigerian Court of Benin donated by Klaus Perls.

  • [19] In December 2021, the Met began its $70 million renovation of the African, ancient American, and Oceanic art galleries, which is set for completion in 2024.

  • [68] To emphasize the personal nature of the Robert Lehman Collection, the Met housed the collection in a special set of galleries which evoked the interior of Lehman’s richly
    decorated townhouse at 7 West 54th Street.

  • Instead, every year it holds two separate shows in the Met’s galleries using costumes from its collection, with each show centering on a specific designer or theme.

  • Until that time, a narrow selection of items from the collection had been on temporary display throughout the museum.

  • The Met supplemented Stieglitz’s gift with the 8,500-piece Gilman Paper Company Collection, the Rubel Collection, and the Ford Motor Company Collection, which respectively
    provided the collection with early French and American photography, early British photography, and post-WWI American and European photography.

  • [64] Other early donors to the department include Junius Spencer Morgan II who presented a broad range of material, but mainly dated from the 16th century, including two woodblocks
    and many prints by Albrecht Dürer in 1919.

  • Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.

  • The department’s focus on “outstanding craftsmanship and decoration,” including pieces intended solely for display, means that the collection is strongest in late medieval
    European pieces and Japanese pieces from the 5th through 19th centuries.

  • Though the department gained a permanent gallery in 1997, not all of the department’s holdings are on display at any given time, due to the sensitive materials represented
    in the photography collection.

  • While a great deal of European medieval art is on display in these galleries, most of the European pieces are concentrated at the Cloisters (see below).

  • [42] In September 2022 the Met revealed that it had received a substantial gift from Qatar Museums on the occasion of its 10th anniversary of the opening of its Galleries
    for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia, which would benefit its Department of Islamic Art and some of the museum’s other principal projects.

  • [24] Among the most valuable pieces in the Met’s Egyptian collection are 13 wooden models (of the total 24 models found together, 12 models and 1 offering bearer figure is
    at the Met, while the remaining 10 models and 1 offering bearer figure are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo), discovered in a tomb in the Southern Asasif in western Thebes in 1920.

  • [74] The Cloisters are so named on account of the five medieval French cloisters whose salvaged structures were incorporated into the modern building, and the five thousand
    objects at the Cloisters are strictly limited to medieval European works.

  • A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.

  • These models depict, in unparalleled detail, a cross-section of Egyptian life in the early Middle Kingdom: boats, gardens, and scenes of daily life are represented in miniature.

  • [27] European paintings[edit] European paintings at the museum The Met’s collection of European paintings numbers around 1,700 pieces.

  • The Met’s Asian department holds a collection of Asian art, of more than 35,000 pieces,[21] that is arguably the most comprehensive in the US.

  • The new installation provides visitors with the history of American art from the 18th through the early 20th century.

  • However, the Photographs department has produced some of the best-received temporary exhibits in the Met’s recent past, including a Diane Arbus retrospective and an extensive
    show devoted to spirit photography.

  • [22] However, not only “art” and ritual objects are represented in the collection; many of the best-known pieces are functional objects.

  • Geographically designated collections[edit] Ancient Near Eastern art[edit] Beginning in the late 19th century, the Met started acquiring ancient art and artifacts from the
    Near East.

  • As with many other departments at the Met, the Islamic Art galleries contain many interior pieces, including the entire reconstructed Nur Al-Din Room from an early 18th-century
    house in Damascus.

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people.

  • [72] Main building[edit] The medieval collection in the main Metropolitan building, centered on the first-floor medieval gallery, contains about 6,000 separate objects.

  • Part of this 40,000 square-feet renovation will include the installation of a glass wall to better illuminate the galleries as well as featuring 3,000 new works.

  • [63] Drawings and prints[edit] Melencolia I by Albrecht Dürer Though other departments contain significant numbers of drawings and prints, the Drawings and Prints department
    specifically concentrates on North American pieces and western European works produced after the Middle Ages.

  • [31] American Wing[edit] Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze The museum’s collection of American art returned to view in new galleries on January 16, 2012.

  • [85] By the time she died, the collection had 3,600 instruments that she had donated and the collection was housed in five galleries.

  • The first Old Master drawings, comprising 670 sheets, were presented as a single group in 1880 by Cornelius Vanderbilt II and in effect launched the department, though it
    was not formally constituted as a department until later.

  • However, the Met then requested to include the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in their personal collection and on permanent display.

  • [45] Non-geographically designated collections[edit] Arms and Armor[edit] Arms and armor, Middle Ages main hall The Met’s Department of Arms and Armor is one of the museum’s
    most popular collections.

  • More than 26,000 separate pieces of Egyptian art from the Paleolithic era through the Ptolemaic era constitute the Met’s Egyptian collection, and almost all of them are on
    display in the museum’s massive wing of 40 Egyptian galleries.

  • In addition to its outstanding collections of English and French furniture, visitors can enter dozens of completely furnished period rooms, transplanted in their entirety
    into the Met’s galleries.

  • [89] Film[edit] The Met has an extensive archive consisting of 1,500 films made and collected by the museum since the 1920s.

  • [11] Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas[edit] Benin ivory mask, Iyoba, 16th-century Nigeria Though the Met first acquired a group of Peruvian antiquities in 1882, the
    museum did not begin a concerted effort to collect works from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas until 1969, when American businessman and philanthropist Nelson A. Rockefeller donated his more than 3,000-piece collection to the museum.

  • [69] Unlike other departments at the Met, the Robert Lehman collection does not concentrate on a specific style or period of art; rather, it reflects Lehman’s personal interests.

  • The Greek and Roman Art department page provides a department overview and links to collection highlights and digital assets.

  • The interactive Met map provides an initial view of the collection as it can be experienced in the physical museum.

  • Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer himself, donated the first major collection of photographs to the museum,[88] which included a comprehensive survey of Photo-Secessionist
    works, a rich set of master prints by Edward Steichen, and an outstanding collection of Stieglitz’s photographs from his own studio.

  • [71] Medieval art and the Cloisters[edit] The Limbourg brothers’ Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry The Met’s collection of medieval art consists of a comprehensive
    range of Western art from the 4th through the early 16th centuries, as well as Byzantine and pre-medieval European antiquities not included in the Ancient Greek and Roman collection.

  • [55] Exhibits displayed over the past decade in the Costume Institute include: Rock Style, in 1999,[56] representing the style of more than 40 rock musicians, including Madonna,
    David Bowie, and the Beatles; Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed, in 2001, which exposes the transforming ideas of physical beauty over time and the bodily contortion necessary to accommodate such ideals and fashion;[57] The Chanel Exhibit,
    displayed in 2005,[58] acknowledging the skilled work of designer Coco Chanel as one of the leading fashion names in history; Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, exhibited in 2008,[59] suggesting the metaphorical vision of superheroes as ultimate
    fashion icons; the 2010 exhibit on the American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, which exposes the revolutionary styles of the American woman from the years 1890 to 1940, and how such styles reflect the political and social sentiments
    of the time.

  • In 2007, the Met’s Greek and Roman galleries were expanded to approximately 60,000 square feet (6,000 m2), allowing the majority of the collection to be on permanent display.

  • A few gallery items found here.

 

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