Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an enormous art museum, often referred to simply as "the Met", located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York. It also comprises a building complex known as "The Cloisters" in Fort Tryon Park at the north end of Manhattan Island overlooking the Hudson River which features medieval art.

Its massive collection includes hundreds of European masters as well as an extensive collection of American art. The museum also contains recreations of notable interiors by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and, somewhat incongruously, a collection of antique weapons and armor.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art are near the museum's main building.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened on February 20, 1872.

External link

Metropolitan Museum of Art: official site

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Pictures (from a French-language art site)