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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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Among them was a massive column that remains on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026

When we first encounter the couple, they’re roaming the Metropolitan Museum of Art — which, one gets the sense, they know by heart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and now Raphael: New York's prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicating a retrospective to the third of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” opens with footage of the first P.A.I.N. protest, inside the now-former Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

Five-thirty in winter is dark, but nowhere seems as dark as the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg