The Met Fifth Avenue is the primary museum building for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The building is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Entrance facade
Original building designed by Vaux and Mould, built to support expansions
The building as constructed in 1888-94
Street view of the Met
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. It is the largest art museum in the Americas and the fourth-largest in the world. With 5.36 million visitors in 2023, it is the most-visited museum in the United States and the fourth-most visited art museum in the world.
Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) Central Park, NYC
Image: The Met Cloisters
Benin ivory mask, Iyoba, 16th-century Nigeria
Lord Neminatha (Akota Bronzes 7th century)