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May 24, 2012

NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

Every Day at the Met

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
(at 82nd Street)
New York, NY  10028
Tel: (212) 535-7710
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Free for children, members, $10.00 students, $15.00 seniors, $20.00 adults.
The above are suggested prices. New York City public school students, along with students from Bard Graduate Center, Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University receive free admission.

Dates

Ongoing

Hours

Tues – Thurs, Sun: 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Fri, Sat: 9:30 am – 9 pm

Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.
The Met has 19 curatorial collections on view every day. Choose a part of the globe, medium or time period in the past five millenia and you're likely to find representative art works from it on the museum's two floors that span four city blocks. Outdoor sculptures, installations and the cityscape can be seen on the roof garden (weather permitting). Gallery tours take place daily and special exhibitions are always on view.
  • Directions: Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 86th Street

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was incorporated in 1870 and moved to its present location in Central Park in 1880. It houses an encyclopedic collection of art objects from virtually all periods and continents.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Listings

  • The Dawn of Egyptian Art

    Tues, April 10, 2012 – Sun, Aug 5, 2012 This exhibition brings together some 175 objects gathered from the Metropolitan Museum's important collection of early art and from the collections of 12 other museums in the U.S. and Europe to illustrate the origins and early development of ancient Egyptian art.

  • Cirene: Multimedia Fairy Tales

    Sat, June 16, 2012 Cirène's artists and musicians reimagine timeless tales from the Arab lands and craft them into presentations of dance, music, live painting, and animation. Magical images are projected behind the performers and spring to life in unexpected ways.

  • The Coe Collection of American Indian Art

    Tues, Dec 6, 2011 – Mon, May 28, 2012 This exhibition features a wide range of Native American works that come from different times, different places, and numerous distinct peoples.

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