Among the many attractions of New York, one of the largest art museums in the world - the Metropolitan Museum - occupies an important place. It was founded in 1870 by the union of the Union League Club of New York - a group of businessmen and admirers of art
How to get there
The Metropolitan Museum is located in the heart of Manhattan Island, Fifth Avenue, 1000. You can also get to the museum from 81 and 82 streets. To get here it is the easiest to take a taxi, but it is possible and on the metro - the trip will cost a little over $ 2. By taxi (traditional yellow cab), depending on the distance (area of the city of New York) travel can cost $ 40-75. The price of a taxi ride will also depend on the time of day. Day planting will cost $ 2, 50, each kilometer of the way - $ 1, 5 or 40 cents for every 267 m run or 120 seconds of waiting.
Features
At the Metropolitan Museum realized a very interesting payment scheme: the price is indicated, but You can go to the exhibition for any sum of money, even for one coin of any value. And you can and do for free, just asking for an entrance ticket. Tickets are also very unusual - they are colored icons that can be attached to clothes, and then taken with a memory. In this case, you will not be able to go through with one icon for two days in a row - you will have to determine your color for each day, the ritual of "mining" the ticket will have to be repeated.
For $ 7 you can pay for audio guide services - although in Russian it is not provided yet. But on the information desk you can take the plan of the museum in Russian - it's easy to learn from the portrait of Garshin by Repin.
| Metropolitan Museum |
| Inside the Metropolitan Museum |
| Hall of the Middle Ages |
Going to the Metropolitan Museum, be prepared for a large number of visitors: since the morning there are going to a lot of people who want to touch the beautiful. And if you are aiming to inspect all the exhibits, prepare to go to the museum every day for at least a week.
You can relax and have a snack at one of several cafes offering fast food.
Museum exhibits
At the beginning of the XX century the museum began to gain worldwide fame. This is due in no small measure to the unique exhibits of the collection: in 1907 the collection was enriched by the canvas of Auguste Renoir, later there were still many masterpieces of impressionists and post-impressionists. The museum was lucky for the works of the portraitist Jan Vermeer - there were only about 40 paintings of his authorship, and 5 of them were in the collection of the Underground.
Today the exposition includes more than two million works of art. The basis of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum is three private collections, including a collection of John Kensett - 38 paintings of famous artists.
In addition to works of artists in the museum, works by photographers Diana Arbus, Walker Evans and others, as well as one of the most complete in the world of collections Egyptian art. Once a year, the museum publishes an "Annual Report" describing the new acquisitions.
to pay special attention to the following departments of the museum:
- American art - painting, sculpture, interiors of different epochs,
- weapons and armor - European and Middle Eastern armor, an extensive collection of Japanese weapons,
- drawings and lithographs - works by many famous authors , including Rembrandt, Goya, Durer,
- Ancient eegipetskogo art - jewelry, statues, tombs of ancient Egyptian and Middle kingdoms of
- medieval art - objects from the XIV to the XVI century, the Byzantine and Celtic art, Gothic and Romanesque sculptures, tapestries and stained glass windows;
- of contemporary art - painting, sculpture, graphics and architecture since 1900.
Each exhibit has a tablet on which besides the name, the author's and the donor's names, some interesting fact about this work is written.
| Exhibition The Model as Muse |
| @ American Wing |
| Asia Hall |
| Hall of Middle Eastern Art |
| Sculpture Hall |
| Hall of Contemporary Art |
| Ugolino and his sons |
Reviews of the Metropolitan Museum (3)
Full Day Delight @ March 31, 2014
For the entrance to the Metropolitan stood in line for at least 20 minutes, but then immediately plunged headlong in a rich world of unsurpassed paintings and a lot of valuable exhibits of the museum.
Did not deny yourself a chance, despite hunger and fatigue, to spend here ... Read the whole review