Metropolitan Museum of Art

British  

noun

1. the principal museum in New York City: founded in 1870 and housed in its present premises in Central Park since 1880

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Cultural  

1. An art museum in New York City. One of the leading art museums in the world, it is known for its extensive collections, ranging from Egyptian temples to twentieth-century masterpieces.

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Example Sentences

Akangbe Ogun featured last year in a short film by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the US, commemorating the reopening of its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing housing the Arts of Africa.

From BBC

In 2012, it sponsored the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual gala, known as the Costume Institute Benefit, which attracts top-tier designers and celebrities.

From The Wall Street Journal

This is the appetizer: The 40 photographs on display in “View Finding” through May 3 are a foretaste of the over 6,500 works that collector Artur Walther and the Walther Family Foundation have promised to donate to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck,” a revelatory overview of a remarkable woman’s long working life, should change that.

From The Wall Street Journal

In February 2023, the Washington State University art history professor and practicing glassblower was studying a private collection of Roman glass cage cups at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

From Science Daily