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

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

Another sketch of her belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

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 • Jan. 19, 2026

The signing of the will will take place in the restaurant of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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