The Libraries at The Met With its collection of more than one million volumes,
The Libraries at The Met With its collection of more than one million volumes,
Butte, Mont., 1908–Madison, Conn., 1987, and Cleveland, 1901–Rancho Mirage, Calif., 1991
purchased by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1981 for the record price of $1 million
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
altarpiece, which was still in a private collection, paying the phenomenal sum of two million
We started with no art, staff, or building. How did we get here? 150 years of transformation, and counting.
One hundred fifty years later, The Met is home to over 1.5 million works of art from
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
collections that span some 5,000 years of world culture, and it welcomes over seven million
The Libraries at The Met With its collection of more than one million volumes,
This February marks the third anniversary of the Met’s Open Access program. As we cross this important milestone, we’d like to reflect on some of the goals we’ve already been able to achieve with Open Access, and share our vision for the program’s future.
Access has been a remarkable success: The Met’s artwork has reached a phenomenal 225 million
Steichen’s embrace of editorial and commercial photography in his own work—to Stieglitz’s mind, nothing less than apostasy—drove a still greater wedge between the former mentor and protégé.
of Man, a sentimental spectacle that, in various incarnations, was seen by nine million
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
finest masterpieces in the Metropolitan’s collection, drawn from more than three million
