This exhibit features manuscripts and miniatures, carpets, intricately decorated objects in many media, and architectural elements from the founding of Islam in the 7th century C.E. onward, from...

This exhibit features seven centuries and five continents of fashionable dress, regional costumes and accessories for men, women and children, up to the present.

The New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture reopened with renovated rooms and 8,000 square feet of additional gallery space--the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries--to...

This is the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai.

Organized by the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, the exhibition, which consists of 37 paintings by Luo Ping, members of his family and his mentor Jin Nong, is drawn primarily from leading museums in China...

This exhibition will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Americans, Robert Frank's influential suite of black-and-white photographs made on a cross-country road trip in...

The Wrightsman Galleries presents a renowned collection of French furniture and related decorative arts.

This exhibit features portraits, landscapes, history paintings, still lifes, folk art and sculpture from colonial times through the early 20th century.

The Pacific Ocean encompasses more than a thousand distinct cultures and hundreds of artistic traditions in an area that covers about one-third of the earth's surface. The Museum's new permanent...

This exhibit features major canvases, panels, triptychs and frescoes by Italian, Flemish, Dutch, French, Spanish and British masters, from the 12th through the 19th century.

This exhibit features paintings, calligraphy, prints, sculpture, ceramics, bronzes, jades, lacquer, textiles and screens from ancient to modern China, Japan, Korea, and South and Southeast Asia

This exhibit features ritual objects and monuments, articles of personal adornment and utensils for daily life from three continents and dozens of Pacific islands, from 2000 B.C.E. to the present.

This loan exhibition of more than 100 masterpieces of American painting explores a major mode of artistic expression from the pre-Revolutionary era to the beginning of World War I: figural scenes of...

This exhibit features sculpture, furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork, scientific instruments, textiles and period rooms of the major Western European countries from the Renaissance through the...

These galleries explore the South Asian emergence of Buddhist and Hindu sculptural traditions between the 2nd century B.C. and the 8th century A.D. More than 160 works from the permanent collections...

This complex of Hellenistic, South Italian, Etruscan and Roman galleries, comprises an entire wing housing some 5300 objects in more than 30,000 square feet. The centerpiece is the Leon Levy and...

The exhibition will demonstrate the place of music and theater in Watteau's art, exploring the tension between an imagery of power, associated with the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV and a more...

This exhibition, which celebrates the Museum's collection, showcases approximately 50 examples of this art form.

See an international array of instruments of historical, technical and social importance, as well as tonal and visual beauty, from accordions to koras to zithers.

New York is often imagined as a perennially new city, yet in the four decades since the 1965 passage of the New York Landmarks Law, it has become one of the strongest forces for historic preservation...

The National Park Service provides ranger-guided walking tours of the museum. Times are posted at the Information Desk.

This annual exhibition of K-12 explorations into the built environment showcases models and drawings from 'Learning By Design:NY,' the school based residency program, as well as work from the youth...

This exhibit features armor for men, horses and children, as well as weapons and martial accoutrements of sculptural and ornamental beauty from Europe, Asia, the Middle East and America

When The Charles Engelhard Court--the grand, light-filled pavilion that has long served as the formal entrance to The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing reopens in March 2009 after two years...

The introduction of esoteric Buddhism to Japan from mainland China in the ninth-century forever changed the visual landscape of Japanese religion and of Japanese art as a whole. The rituals of Mikkyo...

The art of the book in medieval India is closely associated with the Jain religious community. This exhibit features illustrated palm-leaf and paper manuscripts.

This exhibit features furniture, silver, pewter, glass, ceramics and textiles from the late 17th to early 20th century, as well as domestic architecture in furnished period rooms.

This exhibit features stone reliefs and sculpture, ivory and objects of precious metal from a vast area and time span: Anatolia to the Indus Valley, Neolithic period (ca. 8000 B.C.E.) to the Arab...

American artist Roxy Paine (b. 1966) is creating a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide stainless-steel sculpture, especially for the Museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Immersing viewers in what...

The AIA New York Chapter presents 'Arch Schools: Visions of the Future,' its fifth annual exhibition of exemplary student work from fourteen area architecture schools. The theme of the 2009 Arch...