Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is located at 86th Street and Fifth Avenue and sits on the eastern side of Central Park in New York City. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was founded in 1870 and opened on February 20, 1872, at it's original location at 681 Fifth Avenue. It subsequently moved to West 14th Street but the collection was rapidly becoming too large and a bigger space was needed.

In1871, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park on Fifth Avenue where it built its present and most likely, permanent home. Today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art stretches almost a quarter mile long and occupies an area of more than two million square feet.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a permanent collection of over two million works of art, which make up nineteen curatorial departments. Represented in the permanent collection are 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 as well as African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine and Islamic art.

It also has a collection of over five thousand musical instruments from all over the world, as well as an extensive collection of costumes and accessories, and antique weapons and armor. Interiors, ranging from 1st century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed among the Met's numerous galleries. The museum is also home to a vast collection of modern art including works by Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns among others.