The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens – businessmen and financiers as well as leading arists and thinkers of the day – who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City’s Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). The Museum’s two-million-square-foot building has vast holdings that represent a series of collections, each of which ranks in its category among the finest in the world. The Metropolitan Museum presents more than 30 exhibitions each year, representing a wide range of artists, eras, and cultures.

The Museum serves New York City, the United States, and people around the world with a large variety of educational training programs, fellowships, and loans of works of art. For more than a century, the City of New York and the trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art have been partners in bringing the Museum’s services to the public.

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