The Metropolitan Museum of Art, known colloquially as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum building on the edge of Central Park in New York City. It is the fourth largest museum in the world by floor area and the largest art museum in the Americas, drawing more than 5.7 million visitors in its 2025 fiscal year.
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Building Type LocationSourced to the subject's own accountManhattan, United States 2 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
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The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and decorative arts and textiles, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the third-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas. With 5,727,258 visitors in fiscal year 2025, it was the most-visited museum in the United States and the fifth-most visited art museum in the world.
In 2000, its permanent collecti
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The first part of the Met to be built was a red-brick and stone "mausoleum" designed by American architect Calvert Vaux and his collaborator Jacob Wrey Mould.
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The first part of the Met to be built was a red-brick and stone "mausoleum" designed by American architect Calvert Vaux and his collaborator Jacob Wrey Mould.
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The Fifth Avenue facade, Great Hall, and Grand Stairway were designed in the Beaux-Arts style by Richard Morris Hunt and his son, Richard Howland Hunt, in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
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Wikidata item Q160236, property P571: 1870
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Wikidata item Q160236, property P131/P17 (location): Manhattan, United States
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