San Diego, California, 1919‒New York City, 1996
In 1979, Copley sold much of his personal collection at Sotheby’s for $6.7 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
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efficiency, and community outreach, doubling its endowment and raising more than $8 million
of advisers, provincial governors, and village chiefs who ruled as many as three million
I saw the pyramids of Giza for the first time when I was fourteen and became completely enchanted with ancient Egypt.
Skip to main content For thirty million years the Nile has been flowing from Lake
Met director Max Hollein reflects on current discussions about cultural property, provides background on The Met collection, and previews several important initiatives.
our founders, the collection has grown to encompass 17 curatorial areas and 1.5 million
Scholars increasingly turned to the arts, the study of which was considered a path to the cultivation of the moral self.
By the late eighteenth century, China’s population had grown to about 300 million
Watson Library provides Met staff, art professionals, and scholars with a collection of over 1,020,000 volumes; over 21,000 periodical titles; over 140,000 auction and sale catalogs; online journals and databases; and papers and ephemera related to artists and Museum history.
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processing the film for the consumer, [George Eastman] made photography accessible to millions
the first Kodak was introduced, one photography journal estimated that over 1.5 million
combat in World War II took place on the Soviet Front, resulting in roughly thirty million
