The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Features works of art from classical antiquity and Ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art and also maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine and Islamic art.

Information

Location	1000 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, NY
Directions	4, 5, 6 train to 86th Street; walk 3 blocks west to 5th Ave
Hours	Tuesday – Thursday 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Friday - Saturday 9:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. Sunday 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Closed Monday (except Monday holidays)
Cost	Suggest $10 with college ID
Website	http://www.metmuseum.org
Additional Info	Free tours offered daily

Current Exhibitions

The Drawings of Bronzino (January 20, 2010 - April 18, 2010)
This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), and will present nearly all the known drawings by, or attributed to, this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence. A painter, draftsman, academician, and enormously witty poet, Bronzino became famous as the court artist to the Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici.


Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection (December 17, 2009 - June 6, 2010)
This exhibition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of the acquisition of the Packard Collection, showcasing its particular strengths in archaeological artifacts, Buddhist iconographic scrolls, ceramics, screen paintings of the Momoyama and Edo periods (sixteenth through nineteenth centuries), and sculptures of the Heian and Kamakura periods (ninth through fourteenth centuries).


The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (Through June 13, 2010)
The Belles Heures (1405–1408/9) of Jean de Berry, a treasure of The Cloisters collection, is one of the most celebrated and lavishly illustrated manuscripts in this country. Because it is currently unbound, it is possible to exhibit all of its illuminated pages as individual leaves, a unique opportunity never to be repeated. The exhibition will elucidate the manuscript, its artists—the young Franco-Netherlandish Limbourg Brothers—and its patron, Jean de France, duc de Berry.

Sound the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania (November 17, 2009 - September 6, 2010)
This exhibition—the first in an art museum to be devoted exclusively to Oceanic musical instruments. Explore more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.


Tutankhamun's Funeral (Through September 6, 2010)
The exhibition features jars, lids, bowls, floral collars, linen sheets, and bandages that were used at the pharaoh's mummification and the rites associated with his burial, as well as related objects such as a sculpted head of the youthful Tutankhamun and several facsimile paintings depicting funerary rituals.

For more information, please visit the Metropolitan Museum website.