About the MET

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 five
thousand 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. Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year.

Museum Mission
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in
the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a
Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts,
and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the
general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular
instruction."

This statement of purpose has guided the Museum for more than a century.

The mission of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is to collect, preserve, study, exhibit
and stimulate appreciation for and advance knowledge of works of art that
collectively represent the broadest spectrum of human achievement at the highest
level of quality, all in the service of the public and in accordance with the highest
professional standards.
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