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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.

Facts
Building Type
Art Museum 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Manhattan, United States 2
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1870 2
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Museum 1
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Museum, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. Metropolitan Museum of Art - Wikipedia
  • standing status determination, wikipedia summary
    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.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field
    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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2. Metropolitan Museum of Art (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1870)
    Wikidata item Q160236, property P571: 1870
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Manhattan, United States
    Wikidata item Q160236, property P131/P17 (location): Manhattan, United States
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